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Coronavirus: Bavarian community with an incidence of 14,000 - probably with serious consequences

2020-11-05T11:21:10.652Z


In Bavaria, the nationwide "partial lockdown" has been in effect since Monday (November 2nd). A community in Lower Franconia has become a hotspot - the incidence is 14,000.


In Bavaria, the nationwide "partial lockdown" has been in effect since Monday (November 2nd).

A community in Lower Franconia has become a hotspot - the incidence is 14,000.

  • A comprehensive partial lockdown has been in effect in Bavaria since Monday (November 2nd).

    Here you can find a summary of the current rules.

  • Augsburg is now the front runner in the 7-day incidence in Bavaria (update from November 3, 10:54 a.m.).

  • Teacher association boss thinks little of equalized school times (update from November 5, 9:31 a.m.).

  • Here you can find the number of cases in Bavaria * as a map.

    This news ticker is updated regularly. 

Update from November 5, 9:31 a.m.:

In order

to solve

the problem with full

school buses

, many propose

to equalize

school hours

.

The students should come to school in stages.

Teachers' Association President

Heinz-Peter Meidinger

doesn't think much of the idea.

“There may be a little less going on on the buses and during the breaks, but nothing changes in the basic problem.

And the basic problem is the full class.

At school they still have

full classrooms

. "

In many regions, staggering the start of lessons would not work anyway, says

Meidinger

.

School buses

would often be used there for other tasks outside of normal transport times.

There

could also be problems

with

lunch care

.

This would then have to be extended over time.

Meidingers

counter-proposal, "If you really strong increases in

infection levels

would make effective health, you have to actually back in the

alternation

go, that is, halving classes and one half in one week or one day and the other half in the other Teach at school week or the other day. "

Corona in Bavaria: Retirement home in the Würzburg district reports numerous positive test results

Update from November 4, 10:29 p.m.:

In a

senior citizens' home

particularly

affected

by

Corona

in Ochsenfurt in Lower Franconia (Würzburg district), the number of cases continues to rise.

In the meantime, there were 89 positive test results, the Würzburg district office announced on Wednesday.

So far 61 residents and 28 employees are affected (as of 3 p.m.).

Three residents are still in inpatient treatment.

The Würzburg health department had ordered the entire home to be quarantined, and all 109 residents and employees of the facility were tested.

Now people who tested negative twice are to be separated from those who tested positive.

Update from November 4th, 3:56 p.m

.: A small community in Lower Franconia has developed into a corona hotspot.

As the

Mainpost

(article behind the payment barrier) reports, there are 45 positive corona cases in Dornheim - with just 320 residents.

The seven-day incidence in the Iphöfer district is - extrapolated to 100,000 inhabitants - at 14,000.

According to media reports, there should have been a kind of

"replacement parish fair"

in

at least two places in the village

.

Reconstructing the chain of infection is therefore not easy.

As

News5

reports, the infection process also had dramatic effects.

Accordingly, the local

fire brigade

should also be

affected and could not move out in a house

fire

- because too many emergency services were infected.

Coronavirus in Bavaria: Söder with offer to neighboring country

Update from November 4, 1:51 p.m

.: The Bavarian Prime Minister

Markus Söder

(CSU) and the Czech Prime Minister

Andrej Babiš

want to keep the border

open

even if the number of

infections

continues to rise

.

"Closing the borders would not bring much profit in combating the pandemic, but would have significant other negative consequences," said Söder on Wednesday in Munich after a video session with Babiš.

On both sides of the border, the same protective measures as

everyday

masks

and minimum distances are

now in effect

, so that border closings would primarily hinder the movement of businesses, services and goods.



Medical care would also be impaired, argued Söder - numerous Czech

commuters

are currently working in the care sector in Bavaria

.

In order to stand by the neighboring country, which has been particularly hard hit by the second wave of pandemics, Söder renewed the

offer

to provide up to 100 beds for the care of corona patients.



Söder demanded from the federal government that the payment of the corona aid should start in November.

"Culture, gastronomy and self-employed people urgently need support." In addition, the Federal Infection Protection Act must be expanded quickly in order to create clarity and legal certainty.

Babiš also emphasized the importance of the local

Corona aid

: "If the German economy breaks down, our economy breaks too." The two politicians therefore also spoke about cross-border infrastructure projects such as a 5G mobile communications corridor between Prague and Munich and the expansion of railway lines .

Corona in Bavaria: Strict rules since Monday

Update from November 3, 5:12 p.m.:

Since Monday, strict

corona rules

have been in place throughout Germany

*

.

The authorities hope to get the spread of the virus under control, especially with the closure of the catering and hotel industries.

In

Berchtesgaden

, the lockdown was already imposed on October 20 after the

seven-day incidence

the previous day was 262.

2,500 tourists had to leave, and the house was only allowed to leave for compelling reasons.

But the

incidence

continued to rise: on October 28, it was 323.8.

Last Saturday the incidence was 282.6 - still higher than when the lockdown began.

On Monday, the county lockdown went into nationwide restrictions.

On Tuesday the incidence was 252.09.

In

the Rottal-Inn district

, a regional lockdown was also imposed on October 27, when the incidence jumped to 260.1.

Here, too, the incidence continued to rise.

According to the State Office for Health, it was

312.7

on Tuesday

.

According to the district office, that was an outdated value.

Now the rate is only 275.7.

"The measures are having an effect, albeit with a delay," said district spokesman Mathias Kempf.

The numbers initially rose due to infections within families before falling again.

Stefanie Wegele

Corona infections: Augsburg breaks all records - virus reaches many retirement homes

Update from November 3, 1:49 p.m.:

In a

retirement home in Berching

(Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate) there was a massive

corona outbreak

.

Numerous residents and employees have been

infected

with the

virus

.

Four residents are said to have died as a result of the disease.

40 others also tested positive, according to the spokeswoman for the Caritas Association for the Eichstätt diocese, Andrea Schödl.

Six sick people are being

treated in a hospital

.

17 employees at the facility were also infected.

The home with its 72 rooms has now been

quarantined

since the outbreak

.

"It is extremely difficult for people with dementia who have a great urge to move around to stay in their rooms," said Schödl.

Nursing staff from other Caritas facilities are currently helping out in

Berching

.

The specific cause of the outbreak has not yet been determined.

The association assumes that a

corona outbreak

on this scale cannot be attributed to a single person or a single cause.

Corona virus in Bavaria: In Augsburg, the 7-day incidence value shoots through the roof

Update from November 3, 10:54 a.m.:

After the districts of

Berchtesgadener Land

and

Rottal-Inn

, a city in Bavaria is now the sad leader in terms of

corona incidence

for the first time

.

The

7-day incidence

value

in

Augsburg

is 346.3 today, reports the city.

Since Monday (November 2nd) there have been 102 more people who tested positive in Bavaria's third largest metropolis.

The health department #Augsburg reports 102 # new coronavirus infections.

With the current figures, a total of 3323 Covid 19 cases were detected in Augsburg.

The 7-day incidence is 346.3.

More at: https://t.co/Ks9xGqcZvB pic.twitter.com/F7rABOwbl0

- City of Augsburg (@stadtaugsburg) November 3, 2020

The

health department

attributes the

high values

to incidents in several

senior citizens' homes

and

refugee

accommodation.

“As can be observed nationwide,

the number of cases

in

Augsburg *

has also risen continuously, even if the expected weekly doubling of the number of

new infections

has not materialized,” explains

health officer Reiner Erben

.

"In over 300 cases, the source of the infection is still unknown, plus there are

infection clusters

in seven retirement homes and in six facilities for refugees,"

Erben

continues on the city's website.

Other reasons for the high number of cases are attributed to a

processing backlog in the laboratories

.

This is said to have caused delays in the

transmission of positive test results

.

At the weekend, many positive test results were received from people who had already been crossed off at the beginning of last week.

There

is currently a delay of up to

72 hours

in the transmission of the test results from the

Augsburg test center

.

The main reason here is on the one hand the

increased number of tests

but also the increasing number of positive smears - which increase the processing time.

In relation to the

Augsburg test center

, the processing time is

expected to

return to

48 hours

this week

.

The delays in the

test laboratories

should also have another reason.

According to a letter that was

leaked

to

Merkur.de

, there should have been delivery bottlenecks for

PCR tests

.

It also says that indiscriminate testing is

not recommended

in

symptom-free people

.

One should concentrate primarily on testing people with symptoms, close contacts and people in critical areas (retirement homes, hospitals).

Corona in Bavaria: Corona deniers are radicalizing themselves on social media platforms

Update from November 3, 9.12 a.m.:

That

corona deniers

can not only be a danger to their health and that of others, but actually represent a real threat, has now been found in

Nuremberg

.

As

br24.de reports

, citing the

“Nuremberg Alliance Nazi Stop”

, members of the so-called

“Corona rebels”

are said

to have sent instructions on how to build explosives

in chats of the messenger service

Telegram

.

A user is said to have posted instructions on how to make

Apex explosives

- an

explosive

preferred by the so-called

Islamic State

.

The information gathered by the alliance has already been passed on to the

police

.

At a digital event on Monday evening, the

“Nuremberg Alliance Nazi Stop” provided

information about the background to the

“Corona rebels”

.

It is supposed to be a group that is unsolidary, open to the law and anti-science.

Radical groups - often right-wing extremists, anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers - particularly enjoy exchanging information on

Telegram

because, unlike other social media platforms, the messages are not deleted there.

Update from November 3, 8:19 a.m.:

After a protest meeting against the stricter

Corona regulations

, which was

declared a service,

the Bavarian Interior Minister

Joachim Herrmann

(CSU)

announced

strict

controls

.

"In the future, the police and the Assembly authorities such diversion

from the start stop

," said Herrmann

bild.de

.

Compliance with the Infection Protection Ordinance has "top priority and is

consistently monitored

by the police together with the other responsible authorities

".

The new corona lockdown rules have been in effect in Munich since Monday (November 2nd).

But that has changed little in terms of the public transport situation in the city *.

After the corona event in Munich: Bavaria wants to control closely

On

Sunday, almost 2000 people protested against the new partial lockdown on

Munich's Theresienwiese

.

The organizer had declared the meeting to be a service.

The police broke off the event "as the event developed more and more towards the goal of a concert".

Herrmann said the operation on the Theresienwiese would be followed up in detail by the authorities.

Update, 7.20 p.m.:

Since Monday,

all of Bavaria has been red

on the

Corona map

.

As the State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) in Erlangen reported, the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Upper Palatinate has now exceeded the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days and is therefore in the red warning area.

The health department of the city of Augsburg reported 385 new corona cases over the past weekend on Monday.

In the past seven days there were

341 new infections

per 100,000 inhabitants.

The numbers have risen continuously, but "the expected weekly doubling of the number of new infections failed to materialize," said health officer Reiner Erben.

"In over 300 cases, the source of the infection is still unknown, and there are also infection clusters in seven retirement homes and six facilities for refugees."

Corona lockdown in Bavaria: More than a dozen lawsuits against measures

Update, 7:01 p.m

.: At the beginning of the partial lockdown in Bavaria, the

Bavarian Administrative

Court

in Munich had more than a dozen lawsuits against the regulations.

As a court spokesman reported, 13 judicial review urgent proceedings and 2 main proceedings had been received by Monday.



According to the VGH, the proceedings mainly concern the

closure of hotels to tourists and the ban

on serving

guests in restaurants

.

"There are also applications for the closure of fitness studios, tattoo studios and amusement arcades, as well as applications from families and individuals who want to go on vacation or make visits," said the spokesman.

A first decision can be expected this week.

Corona in Bavaria: employees and patients tested positive - hospital no longer accepts patients

Update, 4.44 p.m.:

The municipal hospital in

Bad Aibling

is temporarily no longer accepting patients due to a corona outbreak.

The clinic reported on Monday that eleven employees and nine patients have now tested positive.

Because of this, no more patients are admitted as inpatients and no longer treated as outpatients, and planned

operations have

been canceled.

According to the clinic, the

cause of the

infections

is unclear.

Coronavirus in Bavaria: There is still no shortage of nursing staff

Bavaria's state government currently sees

no shortage of nursing staff

in intensive care units in the Free State due to the

corona pandemic

.

"So far, the Ministry of Health is not aware of any shortage in nursing staff," said a ministry spokesman on Monday when asked by dpa.

“But we are closely monitoring developments.” The nursing staff in Bavaria had previously complained about massive bottlenecks and warned of a

collapse of the system

.



Bavaria's Minister of Health

Melanie Huml

(CSU) had turned to Federal Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) as a precaution and asked for the lower limits of nursing staff to be suspended, especially for the intensive care units.

"The hospitals must be given the flexibility they need in this situation to deploy the existing staff," the ministry said.

It must be clear that sufficient personnel capacities are necessary in order to actually be able to occupy existing intensive care beds.

Coronavirus in Bavaria: Rapid increase in the number of cases in Munich

Update, 1:21 p.m.:

The Bavarian capital

Munich is

currently

seeing

a

rapid increase in

the number of corona cases.

According to current information from the RKI, the important

7-day incidence

in the Isar metropolis is now

142

.

In view of this development, the city was forced last week to

cancel

all

Christmas markets

this year.

Lord Mayor

Dieter Reiter

(SPD) now expressed himself in this context in the city hall exhibition:

Corona in Bavaria: Munich's Lord Mayor with an emotional statement

“I would have wished all of us that we could at least

end

this stressful year with the

traditional Christmas market

.

But with a

heavy heart

we unfortunately have to cancel the Christkindl and Christmas markets with a view to the infection rate, ”the statement said.

Reiter continues: “This

 is of course particularly bitter

for the 

feeders

.

The rejection now brings you at least clarity instead of a hangover that lasts for days or weeks ”.

Update, 12:18 p.m.:

In an

open letter

to Minister of Education

Michael Piazolo

(Free Voters),

Bavarian parents' associations

have

massively criticized

the

lessons

in

Corona times

and complained about missing concepts.

"We parents

will not accept

our children becoming

losers

as a

result of the pandemic

," said the joint letter from

the State Parents 'Association

of High

Schools (LEV) and the Bavarian Parents' Association (BEV)

published on Monday

.

Corona in Bavaria: Open letter to Piazolo - parent associations with massive criticism

There could be no question of a “successful educational partnership” because parents would have to become substitute teachers and

there was no equal opportunity

: “In the pandemic, the level of performance and education of the individual pupil depends more than ever on parental support and encouragement,” it said .

Because of the

risk of

having to switch to distance teaching at any time,

schools are concerned about

giving grades quickly, which puts students and parents

under massive pressure

.

The associations complained that learning material often had to be made up for, but was not taken into account.

In addition, eight months after the start of the pandemic, “digital chaos” prevails.

Update November 2, 10:39:

In a

senior center

in the Lower Franconian

Ochsenfurt

are

72

residents and staff

positively

to the

coronavirus

been tested.

This reports br24.de.

Accordingly, the entire senior citizen center is under

quarantine

, and the Würzburg health department is currently examining further measures.

It also says that 109 residents and employees were tested for Covid-19 on Saturday evening.

So far, 72 positive findings from the laboratory of the Würzburg University Clinic have been reported to the report according to the health department.

Corona in Bavaria: massive outbreaks in nursing home and senior center - two deaths

There was also

a massive corona outbreak

in a

nursing home in Swabia

.

47 people tested positive, two people died.

First report from November 2, 2020:

Munich - The number of

new infections

with the corona

virus

continues to rise

dramatically

in the Free State

.

Most recently, almost all of Bavaria

had arrived

in the so-called "

dark red

" area.

Only the

district of Amberg-Sulzbach

was not in one of the two highest warning levels on Sunday, according to the RKI, with an incidence of 36.9 - but on Monday (November 2) at the start of the week it

slipped

into the

red area of

the RKI card and thus exceeds the important 7-day incidence * of 50.

Corona in Bavaria: Söder speaks to Anne Will about lockdown - "Of course there are alternatives"

The

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder

spoke late on Sunday evening on the

ARD

talk show "

Anne Will

" again about the

reasons for the strict measures

- and gave an outlook on the time afterwards.

Of course there are alternatives,

” says Söder.

What is meant is the Swedish model of "

infection

".

But, according to the Prime Minister: “That means an enormous

increase in the number of infections

.

The consequences are the hospitals filling up and, in the end,

high death rates

. ”Therefore, according to the CSU chief,“ containment is the only realistic and ethically justifiable alternative ”and“ that means

reducing contacts

”.

Söder zu Lockdown in Bavaria: Hope for vaccines is there - "Need good nerves"

When asked by

Anne Will

, Markus Söder explains the extensive

closings in the leisure area

.

Accordingly, leaving

schools,

daycare centers and businesses

open has the

highest priority.

In order to then

successfully implement the

concept of “

contact reduction

”, which is

urgently recommended by scientists

, it is essential to close down all leisure facilities such as gastronomy and culture for a certain period of time.

Then Söder gave an

outlook for the upcoming winter

: “There is no better recipe in the whole world than to reduce contacts.

The Federal Minister of Health has even promised that at the end of the year or the beginning of next year,

vaccines will

at least be

approved

.

We need patience, we need good nerves and a bit of

optimism

, ”said the Bavarian Prime Minister.

However, not everyone shares Söder's hope for a vaccine in the foreseeable future.

Prof. Stefan Willich (61),

epidemiologist at the “Charité”, thinks it is “

far too optimistic

” to assume that a vaccine will only be available for a few months.

An “informed, flexible population” has to get used to high numbers of infections, according to the epidemiologist in Anne Will's studio.

* Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Sven Hoppe / dpa

Source: merkur

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