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 it would be good, we don't test at all because then we don't have any positive ones,” he whispers, “right?” The objection of the audibly annoyed
Prime Minister
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 *,
Bavaria
is currently
number one in the number of infections
.
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
data from the Robert Koch Institute,
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
hotspots like Ischgl
, 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
FAZ
recently
.
Second explanation, which is less popular in Bavaria: the
strong beer festivals
.
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
chains of infection from beer and après-ski
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 since the summer with
series tests
teachers busy starting off at harvest workers, asylum seekers and now the labs much stronger, add the return journey tests came off highways and railway stations (where there are gaps).
Corona: Bavaria has the highest number of infections - the explanation is obvious
Currently around
1.05 million people are
tested
nationwide every week
.
Bavaria said it had
320,000 people
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 similarly, 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
sharp criticism
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 ”.
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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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