The riddle about those infected with corona: Why is Bavaria back in front among the sick?

Ischgl and strong beer are long gone.

Nevertheless, the Free State of Bavaria is once again the front runner in terms of the number of corona infections.

You want to be a role model.

• In Germany

  ,

  Bavaria

  is a pioneer when it comes to combating the

  corona pandemic

  .

• However, the current development in the number of infections * is giving the Free State a setback.

• How can it be that there are more new

  corona cases

  here

  than in the rest of the republic?

• You can read all the news about the corona virus in Bavaria in our news ticker for the Free State.

  We also offer you the current number of cases in Bavaria in a map. *

Munich - It is in the middle of a tapeworm-like journalist question about the corona tests * when Markus Söder * tears patience.

"Then's it's all right, we do not test, because we have no positives," he whispered, "do you?" The objection of audibly annoyed

at a press conference this week is meant ironically.

But the matter has a real core.

Corona infection numbers Germany: Bavaria again in first place, as in March

As with the corona explosion in March *,

is currently

.

Not a nice statistic for the government, which has taken a very strict course against the pandemic for Bavaria.

Again and again the accusation arises that those who have such numbers should not declare themselves to be a role model.

In part, this actually has to do with test numbers.

The facts: According to the latest

Bavaria has had more new corona cases (2114) than any other country in the last seven days.

NRW has 1543, Baden-Württemberg 1530, Saxony-Anhalt 31. Bavaria also leads in relation to population.

Calculated per 100,000 inhabitants there are 16.2 (Baden-Württemberg: 13.8; NRW: 8.6).

Devastating corona hotspots for Bavaria: Ischgl and the strong beer festivals - what's to blame now?

At the beginning of the corona pandemic there were two explanatory models in Bavaria.

First of all, the proximity to devastating

, from which Tyrol sent infected ski tourists out into the world.

Curiously, Ischgl also explains high numbers in March in Hamburg: Many ski vacationers also came from the comparatively rich Hanseatic city, in this case mostly by plane.

At the beginning, Corona was an "elite phenomenon", wrote the

recently

.

Second explanation, which is less popular in Bavaria: the

.

Looking back, Vice-Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger was wrong at one of his appearances when he said that strong beer made you immune to Corona - every festival was a focal point of infection with serious consequences.

The

have been broken.

Bavaria's again such high values ​​have new reasons.

Now, at the end of summer, travelers are driving the numbers up again: on the one hand, family returnees from the Balkans;

Living in Bavaria, well integrated, an above-average number of Croatians.

On the other hand, the vacationers.

Rule of thumb: More people travel to vacation from wealthier regions.

Two thirds of the new corona cases * are due to travelers.

NRW and Hesse have already done that.

Not Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, the school holidays just ended here.

And then the many free tests for asymptomatic patients actually come into play - their infections would never have been discovered otherwise.

Bavaria has been using

the laboratories to a much greater extent

since the summer with

tests on harvest workers, asylum seekers and now teachers, in addition to the return journey tests at the motorways and train stations (where there are also gaps).

Corona: Bavaria has the highest number of infections - the explanation is obvious

Currently around

tested

nationwide every week

.

Bavaria said it had

tested

last week

, almost a third of them.

This number has risen sharply since mid-July.

Other states do not provide exact figures, an RKI sample suggests that only NRW tests a similar amount, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Berlin and Hesse much less.

The Bavarians, 16 percent of Germans, send in over 30 percent of the tests.

Bavaria's test strategy prevented hotspots: 480,000 tests on travelers returning with around 6,000 positive cases.

Each further test creates more clarity.

Well: focus on municipal test centers.

The willingness to test remains high only through low-threshold offers for everyone!

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- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) September 8, 2020

Bavaria's numbers can be explained in this way.

Nevertheless, there is

from the opposition

.

Green parliamentary group leader Ludwig Hartmann accuses Söder of “a highly dangerous communication policy”: “The message of safe Bavaria and dangerous non-Bavaria was wrong and has serious consequences.

Overcrowded beaches are just as dangerous on the Chiemsee as they are on the Adriatic. ”There is no such thing as a“ Bavarian island of the blessed ”.

Update from September 11th, 10.15 a.m.:

On September 12th, a lateral thinking demo against the Corona policy is to take place in Munich.

A tough crackdown by the police has already been announced.

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