Munich cracks an important limit.
For some in the CSU there is still no reason to cheer.
This led to differences between the coalition partners.
In a TV interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also warns against quick easing (
update, February 4, 9:33 p.m.
).
At a question time in the state parliament, there were contradicting opinions between the CSU and free voters.
The CSU warns.
Aiwanger would like to relax (update from January 4th, 10:34 am).
Here you can find the current case numbers in the Free State * as a map.
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Update from February 5, 7:00 a.m.:
Despite ever decreasing incidence numbers, the tough lockdown measures in Bavaria remain in place.
In the state capital, the number of new corona infections within seven days is currently 48 per 100,000 inhabitants (as of February 4).
But even in Regensburg, where the incidence is only half as high at just under 24, the measures including curfew and closed shops remain in place.
Under the motto “The hut is on fire”, inn operators all over Bavaria switched on the lights in their businesses on Thursday evening.
You followed a call by the Association for the Preservation of Bavarian Tavern Culture (VEBWK) and is intended to underline the call for taverns to be opened in Bavaria from March 1st.
Corona in Munich: Tavern operators demand opening - "The hut is on fire"
The restaurants have been closed to guests for over three months and have had to struggle with strict rules since the first lockdown last spring.
Now the gastronomy industry is at an end, said VEBWK managing director Ursula Zimmermann.
"Many restaurateurs are already thinking of giving up." However, this does not only affect the landlords but also employees, lessors, cleaning services and many other industries.
Corona: "Gastronomy is at the end" - Many operators are thinking about spending - but Söder gives little hope
"For almost a year now, resignation, anger, hopelessness and enormous fear of the future have determined the lives of everyone who are directly or indirectly connected to the catering industry," said Zimmermann.
“We now need an open perspective.” It is not exactly known how many restaurateurs took part.
The association itself has around 7,000 members.
It is currently unclear whether the corona measures in Bavaria could be relaxed from March 1 or even from February 15.
Economy Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) had given hope in the evening.
However, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had always declined and stressed that one should not give false hopes.
Söder believes that loosening the measures too early is careless.
Update from February 4, 9:33 p.m.:
What a corona day in Bavaria!
Regensburg * generated nationwide as the incidence prime with a value of 24.2 on Thursday.
After all: Lord Mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (SPD) loosens the mask requirement in the old town as a small praise.
It is now allowed to eat, drink and smoke outside in the alleys despite the requirement to wear a mask.
Munich also falls below 50. But Reiter and Söder do not want to know anything about easing.
Aiwanger is different (see update from 10:34 a.m.).
Angela Merkel then
speaks up
in a TV interview with
ntv
and
RTL
that
evening
.
In the conversation her reluctance to relax and great fear of the British mutation becomes clear.
Update from February 4,
4:10 p.m.: Parents are reaching their limits in corona-related homeschooling.
A mother from Bavaria has enough now.
She published a fire letter on Facebook. *
In Regensburg the incidence is comparatively low.
Mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (CSU) gives a press conference here live on possible corona easing. *
Corona: Söder is happy about gastro facilities
Update from February 4, 2:09 p.m.:
On Wednesday evening, it was decided in Berlin that the VAT should remain lower until the end of 2022.
Originally, the end of June 2020 was planned.
CSU boss Markus Söder was happy about this decision.
He told the German Press Agency on Thursday: “With the VAT cut, the catering industry can hopefully have a better restart after the restrictions have ended.
It would have been a bad signal if there had been a tax increase parallel to the opening. "
In addition, the grand coalition in Berlin decided that there should be further tax aid for companies and a one-time child bonus of 150 euros.
“We expressly supported the child bonus.
Children must not become losers in current developments, ”said Söder.
Supporting children in the pandemic is a major challenge, especially for the socially disadvantaged.
“At the same time, it was also important that we support medium-sized businesses.
By carrying back losses, we increase the company's liquidity. "
The Bavarian state chief was also very pleased that the cooperation between CDU and SPD in the coalition committee had worked so well.
Not a matter of course in the super election year 2021. “At least last night there was no election campaign,” he said.
Söder also explicitly praised the help given to those working in the arts: "The billion for art and culture will also help us a lot in Bavaria."
Corona in Bavaria: Coalition does not agree on openings after lockdown
Update from February 4, 10:34 a.m.: It
is not new that the government coalition in Bavaria between Free Voters and the CSU is not always in agreement.
But the rifts between the two parties are becoming increasingly clear due to the improvement in the corona situation.
In a question and answer session in the Bavarian state parliament on Thursday, two completely contrary opinions could be heard from the respective representatives.
For Bavaria's Minister of Health, Klaus Holetschek (CSU), the falling infection numbers are encouraging, but not yet a reason to give the all-clear.
On Thursday, the 7-day incidence value in the Free State is 83.1 (ninth place in Germany).
However, there are still some districts on the border with the Czech Republic that report a value over 200.
"That also has to do with tests, that also has to do with the question of the mutated virus," said Holetschek.
“You can just see how volatile the situation is in this question: One day it goes up, then it goes down again.” That is why Bavaria needs an incidence value of 50 or lower in the long term, “because we believe that we will then have a real perspective can only develop that sustainably supports opening scenarios, ”says Holetschek.
Only then can contacts be tracked and chains of infection broken.
Corona virus in Bavaria: Free voter boss Aiwanger insists on openings
In the same question time, cabinet colleague Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) adopted a completely different tone.
The figures of the past few days indicated that "it is more likely that openings are possible than leaving everything completely closed".
After all, the Minister of Economic Affairs handed the coalition partner a mistletoe of reconciliation.
However, this must be agreed at the federal level and in the coalition in Bavaria.
"Data have to be discussed, incidences have to be discussed, and political majorities in the federal and state levels have to be found."
Nevertheless, he was not stingy with ideas how things could go on after February 14th.
First the trade and the hairdressers should be allowed to reopen.
In a later step, the gastronomy and tourism are to come.
You have to weigh carefully so that the good development in the number of infections is not gambled away, Aiwanger said.
With a view to Austria, he said: "In my opinion, that is not necessarily effective if we send everyone who goes to the hairdresser to the corona test beforehand." Then some people prefer to have their hair cut black or do without going to the hairdresser to go.
Corona: Bavaria's capital Munich is the first metropolis in Germany to have an incidence of less than 50
Update from February 4, 8:13 a.m.:
The Bavarian capital of Munich was the first metropolis in Germany
to fall below
the limit value of 50 for the seven-day incidence for the first time since mid-October on Thursday.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, it is now 48.0.
Mayor Dieter Reiter put a stop to early easing:
"Only when we maintain this value for the next seven days can we think about it." He will be in close contact with Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).
“It is gratifying that the various measures are clearly working, especially because most people adhere to them.
That is why we have an incidence below 50 today, ”said Reiter.
"I'm happy because it's a step towards more normality."
Corona: Bavaria wants to expand vaccine production facilities
Update from February 4, 7:11 a.m.:
The Bavarian state government is working with several pharmaceutical companies to examine options for setting up additional vaccine production facilities in Bavaria.
This is not about short-term capacities, but towards the end of the year or the beginning of 2022. "The subject of vaccines will continue to occupy us for a long time in the future," said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) of the dpa in Munich.
“We will still need vaccine next year.” Therefore, a newly established working group should now sound out where in Bavaria it is possible to build capacities and what prerequisites are necessary.
The state government - economics minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) was also involved in initial discussions with pharmaceutical companies - wants to give the companies as much support as possible, possibly with money.
"We can also imagine supporting that financially," said Holetschek.
Corona in Bavaria: Nuremberg builds a Corona rapid test center
Update from February 3, 8:10 p.m.:
Nuremberg was one of the first cities in Bavaria to set up a corona rapid test center.
This should make it possible to react more quickly to mutations. * Meanwhile, a Nuremberg souvenir dealer is causing a stir with a poster.
He compares the Corona measures with the Nazi era.
The city is shocked - and powerless. *
Update from February 3, 2:35 p.m.:
Nuremberg Airport * is creative ways to employ its employees.
Because not much is going on in times of the corona pandemic, employees have started to give the health department a helping hand.
For two months now they have been helping to inform those who have tested positive and their contact persons and to issue their quarantine confirmations.
The airport announced on Wednesday that other employees are helping to renovate the cargo center.
Usually outside companies would be used for the extensive painting work.
In the Corona crisis, however, the airport can fall back on its own employees.
Meanwhile, Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) reaffirmed his demand for “opening perspectives” for trade, hairdressers and other closed businesses after February 14th.
Both he and the Bavarian Chamber of Industry and Crafts assume that, regardless of government aid, many companies will "soon run out of air".
Aiwanger assume a wave of bankruptcies in larger and smaller companies if the lockdown continues so restrictively for longer.
Corona in Bavaria: Söder in conversation with DSDS juror Mike Singer
Update from February 3, 11:20 a.m.:
Prime Minister Markus Söder was available to answer questions from DSDS juror Mike Singer for half an hour.
The content of their conversation on the social media platform Instagram was vaccination against corona.
Despite the noticeable excitement of the singer and numerous picture and sound dropouts, Singer was able to have some of his followers' questions answered by the Bavarian state chief.
In any case, Söder was not responsible for the connection disruptions, as he emphasized.
When the announcement, “I'm sitting here in the State Chancellery, everything is set up perfectly and if it doesn't work out, there will be trouble with the Prime Minister”, followed a malicious look at the employees behind the camera.
The question that most likely preoccupied the young Singer fans was the vaccination options for the younger generation.
Söder even gave the viewers hope in this regard.
Since the vaccine from AstraZeneca was only approved for under 64-year-olds, the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) could soon suggest it for younger people.
“Young people should soon get their freedom back,” said Söder, adding, “we would like to go more comfortable, but there aren't any”.
The head of the country also cleared up worries about long-term vaccination damage.
With Corona there are these long-term consequences, with vaccines they are relatively unlikely.
"Aspirin also has side effects if you look at the package insert."
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DSDS juror Mike Singer in an interview with Markus Söder.
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“Will it be possible to travel again during the summer vacation?” Asked another fan of the DSDS jurors.
It will probably not be the same as it was before Corona, "but probably more is possible than now," Söder cautiously formulated his answer.
Singer wanted to know whether Söder would also be vaccinated.
The Bavarian regional chief answered that with a resounding yes.
“Vaccination is the best protection against all epidemics.
I have been vaccinated against everything since I was a child. ”But he will only be vaccinated when it is his turn, says Söder.
Corona: Positive numbers from Bavaria's capital
In addition to all the discussions about the vaccination problems in Bavaria, good news came from Munich today *.
The city is on the verge of the important 7-day incidence * of 50. The health department reported an incidence of 51.7 today to the Robert Koch Institute.
However, it is unlikely that this encouraging figure will lead to easing.
The incidence value of 50 does not generally entail relaxation: "That is not automatically the number at which you can do everything again as before," said Landeschef Söder before the most recent meeting of the CSU board.
Corona: Bavaria's vaccination centers are barely busy
Original notification: Munich
- The 100 vaccination centers in Bavaria have been ready since mid-December 2020.
The coronavirus * should be put to an end there.
But not much has happened yet.
Some have not yet given a single dose of vaccine.
However, what they all have in common - they generate costs.
And plenty of it.
And while there is hardly any improvement in the supply of vaccination doses and the utilization of the vaccination centers for the coming weeks, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) is looking for vaccination promoters among the German celebrities.
Corona vaccination in Bavaria: vaccination centers cause enormous costs
In the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg, there is a lonely and deserted vaccination center in an industrial area near a main road.
It has been operational since December 15th.
A requirement of the federal government, as the Bavarian Ministry of Health emphasizes.
Everything should be ready when the vaccinations * start.
The first vaccination in the center between Aichach and Dasing was given yesterday (February 2nd).
For a month and a half, nothing happened in the fight against the coronavirus *.
On the contrary.
According to
br24.de
, the daily bill from the private operator to the district office is 15,500 euros.
A total of three quarters of a million euros has now come together.
And the Aichach-Friedberg vaccination center is not the only one in Bavaria where costs were incurred but not vaccinated.
The Bavarian Ministry of Health has not yet been able to quantify the exact amount that has been raised so far.
And it is also unclear how many of the 444,000 vaccine doses * administered (as of February 3) were vaccinated in a center or by mobile teams in old people's and nursing homes.
A ministry spokesman said there is currently no detailed survey.
The Bavarian government has budgeted 100 million euros for the entire vaccination strategy.
That means one million euros per vaccination center.
However, these should be operated at least until summer in order to be able to offer the entire population a vaccination offer.
With the costs incurred so far, it is hard to imagine that the money will last until then.
Corona vaccination in Bavaria: Söder gives singer Mike Singer in an interview on Instagram
It is also not clear why Bavaria has advanced so much in terms of vaccination centers.
Other federal states interpreted the requirement from Berlin differently.
So far, only vaccination teams have been on the road in NRW.
The vaccination centers are "basically ready for use", according to the Ministry of Health.
The first vaccinations will probably not be given until next week.
In addition, no private companies were entrusted with the management of the vaccination centers.
In Bavaria, however, there are 26 centers under private management.
In addition, there are 42 centers operated by a local BRK association (Bavarian Red Cross).
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Markus Söder will talk to singer Mike Singer about vaccination on Wednesday on Instagram.
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While the vaccination * against the corona virus in Bavaria is starting more than slowly, the state boss is already looking around for prominent vaccination advocates.
On Wednesday (February 3rd) he wants to give an interview to the singer Mike Singer on the social media platform Instagram.
He fell ill with Covid-19 last year and has been campaigning for the vaccination against Corona ever since.
So while Söder continues to issue his slogan, “Vaccination is the only strategy out of the pandemic”, his vaccination centers are orphaned because the manufacturers continue to have to wait for regular deliveries.
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