Bavaria tightened the quarantine regulation for day trips to risk areas.
Many people in Bavaria are unsettled and ask themselves: Does this regulation also apply to Christmas visits to the family?
In the meantime, Tyrol is stepping up in the ski dispute.
Munich - Like Christina Schön from Munich, many people in Bavaria are currently doing.
She fears that she will not be able to visit her partner, who lives in South Tyrol, at Christmas.
Or that she has to be quarantined for ten days afterwards - without continued payment of wages.
“I perceive this as great hardship and social injustice,” she writes in an open letter.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, she has strictly adhered to the rules, both privately and at work.
She works as an audiology assistant at the Helios Clinic in Munich.
“I would now like to use my overtime and my remaining vacation at the end of the year to be with my partner.” For the sake of her mental health, she would like to be able to travel to her partner - without having to fear any consequences.
The reason for their uncertainty is the current dispute between Bavaria and Austria over the opening of the ski areas.
After Austria spoke out against a Europe-wide closure of the slopes, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) announced that in future day tourists will also have to be quarantined when they return to Bavaria.
According to the cabinet report, small border traffic without quarantine should only be possible with valid reasons.
Business for daily needs or family matters remain possible, especially for residents of the border region, without quarantine.
But what about multi-day family visits abroad over Christmas?
Also for Bavaria who do not live in the border region, such as Christina Schön?
These questions remained open on Friday.
The lawyers in the Ministry of Health were still working on the new entry quarantine regulation on Friday.
Tyrolean governor Günther Platter counters Söder
In any case, the Austrian state of Tyrol returned the favor on Thursday for Bavaria's announcement and in turn tightened the night driving ban for trucks - an eternal bone of contention between Bavaria and Tyrol.
"You don't do that among neighbors," scolded Bavaria's Transport Minister Kerstin Schreyer (CSU) on Friday.
No new bans are needed here, but more neighborhood.
In turn, the Tyrol apparently expects for its ski areas.
Because the state of Bavaria does not want to be persuaded when the slopes are opened.
"If the number of infections allows, we will not let Bavaria take our skiing away," said Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) on Friday.
Söder must also take note of this.
Cross-country skiing is still allowed in Bavaria
In the border region, this bickering causes head shaking.
"I understand the people outside, that they get angry," says Garmisch-Partenkirchen Mayor Elisabeth Koch (CSU).
You can no longer understand the course of the state government.
She describes the hanging part for the ski areas as a "lazy compromise".
After all, there is good news for winter sports enthusiasts: "Cross-country skiing is allowed in Bavaria," says Katrin Nikolaus, spokeswoman for the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
“Cross-country trails can be groomed.” The regions would usually implement their own protection concepts.
So all that's missing for cross-country skiing is snow.
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