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For the very high corona numbers in some districts in southern Bavaria, those responsible on site primarily blame private contacts.
According to a current "Corona update" from the Miesbach district office, the coordination group there currently sees "private meetings of schoolchildren" as an infection driver.
In contrast, there are hardly any infections in school lessons.
Beyond the group of younger people, "many citizens are relatively carefree and - willfully or out of negligence - do not or no longer adhere to protective measures such as wearing a mask, keeping a distance, etc.", the publication says. Rumors had also been brought to the district office "that there would supposedly be corona parties". However, they have "no knowledge of specific cases."
The district is weakening statements by a doctor who acts as a pandemic coordinator in the district. In a newspaper interview, he had spoken of a "very big scam" among young people. "There used to be red chalk parties at which toddlers were supposed to be infected with rubella," said the coordinator, according to an interview with the "Münchner Merkur". "Today some parties are holding corona-positive people in order to become infected and then to be considered recovered for six months in order not to have to take any tests." The doctor could not be reached to explain his statements.
The district, on the other hand, cites structural factors in particular for the fact that the south of Bavaria is particularly affected: the summer holidays in Bavaria ended late, and those returning from traveling brought the virus with them.
For some asymptomatically infected people, five days of quarantine would have been too short, after which they unknowingly spread the virus.
In addition, an infected person is now infected "on average about two thirds of family / household members".
"In unvaccinated families, the infection rate is 100 percent."
The analysis was similar recently in Rosenheim, where a border location on main traffic routes coincides with a below-average vaccination rate.
FFP2 mask mandatory again
The badly affected districts of Mühldorf, Altötting, Traunstein, Berchtesgadener Land and Miesbach as well as the city and district of Rosenheim agreed on joint measures on Friday: For example, wearing an FFP2 mask should be mandatory again in certain situations, a medical mask is then not enough more out.
The 2G rule applies to discos and clubs.
Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has already announced stricter measures for his state.
For example, the pupils should wear masks again in class after the Bavarian autumn break.
Söder spoke out in favor of a regionalization of the regulations, which would make it possible to react precisely to a tense situation in the local hospitals.
Söder referred to the connection between low vaccination rates and high incidences, for example in the districts on the edge of the Alps and in southeastern Bavaria.
On Thursday, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior also published the regional results of the failed referendum »Landtag recalled«.
The initiative, which was largely supported by opponents of the Corona measures, met with high approval in some districts where few are vaccinated and comparatively many are infected - an indication of the connection between criticism of the state and low vaccination rates.
The SPD opposition in the Bavarian state parliament calls for faster action by the state government.
"The later measures are taken, the harder they have to be," said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Ruth Waldmann.
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