The corona situation in Munich is getting worse.
After infections with the professional fire brigade, numerous rescue workers are now in quarantine and thus out of action.
There was also a Sars-CoV2 outbreak in a large university hospital.
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The Klinikum rechts der Isar in Haidhausen is Munich's second largest university hospital.
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Munich is getting more and more in the stranglehold of the corona virus.
Rescue workers and medical personnel are now increasingly affected.
New outbreaks in the professional fire brigade and in a large university hospital.
There is a corona outbreak at the Schwabing fire station in Heßstrasse - where the integrated control center is also located.
Five firefighters from the professional fire brigade have now tested positive, 16 others are in quarantine as a precaution.
Guard officers had only mild cold syndromes
On Monday morning, a fire brigade officer of the security team called in sick with mild cold symptoms.
It was tested in the morning - positive!
His colleagues from the same security team were then tested and two more corona infections were found in quick tests.
The two men did not (yet) have any symptoms and immediately went into quarantine.
Emergency plans put in place
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Munich fire department chief Wolfgang Schäuble
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Due to this accumulation, the head of the Munich professional fire brigade, Chief Fire Director Wolfgang Schäuble, had the entire security team taken out of service.
In the meantime, two other fire service officers have tested positive.
In such cases, emergency plans take effect so that colleagues from other guards and the volunteer fire brigade can supplement the operation at any time and keep it ready for action.
"We had to expect it and that is why we were very well prepared for exactly this case," said a spokesman for the Munich professional fire brigade.
Integrated rescue service control center is not affected
The integrated control center, in which the operations for the entire city and the ambulance service of the district of Munich are coordinated, is not affected.
The employees there have been working consistently separately from the staff of the rest of the fire station since the beginning of the pandemic in order to prevent possible cross-infections here as a precaution.
Infections in several areas of the university hospital on the right of the Isar
There was also a corona outbreak in the university hospital on the right of the Isar of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Several employees and patients tested positive for the virus in an accident surgery ward there.
The clinic initially gave no information about the exact number.
No new patients will be admitted to the affected ward for the time being.
However, other areas of the university hospital are also affected.
“Potential contact persons were tested for the virus in several areas of the hospital.
It turned out that other people were infected with Sars-CoV-2, ”said a message from the clinic.
The press office left it open for the time being which departments are involved.
Visits to the Klinikum rechts der Isar are only possible in justified exceptional cases.
Eva Schuster from the press office of the Klinikum rechts der Isar
20 of 65 corona patients in the intensive care unit
In response to the outbreaks, the university hospital tightened its measures to contain the virus.
"The tested patients are housed in such a way that those who tested positive and negative are isolated from each other," says the clinic.
All employees in the affected areas must wear FFP2 protective masks.
In addition, the visiting regulations have been tightened.
Visits are only possible in justified exceptional cases.
According to their own information, 65 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated at the University Hospital on the right of the Isar, 20 of them in the intensive care unit.
