Bavaria is fundamentally changing its vaccination strategy.
Instead of relying on the expansion of the vaccination centers, the resident doctors should now help with vaccination.
A former prime minister calls for an error analysis (see update from March 10, 8:51 a.m.).
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Söder announced a “real perspective” for some parts of Bavaria (see update from March 10, 12:01 p.m.).
The corona test offer in schools is now to be expanded (see update from March 10, 2:51 p.m.).
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Corona in Bavaria: do general practitioners vaccinate later than planned?
Update from March 10th, 7:04 p.m.:
The federal and state health ministers are aiming for the start of corona vaccinations in doctors' practices by mid-April at the latest.
The ministers decided after deliberations on Wednesday that the goal is to start as soon as possible, but no later than the week of April 19.
But this also requires a certain minimum weekly amount of vaccine, according to the Federal Ministry of Health.
In order to be able to meet the request of the federal states to use their vaccination centers to capacity as before, the practices could probably only start in mid-April.
The recommendation of the specialist ministers should now be the basis for decisions by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the state premiers, as government spokesman Steffen Seibert had announced.
This should happen "promptly" before the next federal-state round on the further corona procedure on March 22nd.
The health ministers had initially considered including the practices for the beginning of April.
Update from March 10, 4:47 p.m.:
The Bavarian Association of Philologists is mad at the state government's vaccination plans.
These provide for primary and special school teachers to prefer to vaccinate.
They were moved to prioritization group 2 for those with severe lung disease and cancer.
"We cannot and do not want to accept the unequal treatment of vaccinations within a group of officials," emphasized chairman Michael Schwägerl on Wednesday in Munich.
For him it is not at all acceptable that some of the teachers are treated differently than another part.
"All teachers are at risk," argued Schwägerl.
"The preference of these groups, regardless of their individual risk of a severe course of the disease, puts the teachers at secondary schools at a further disadvantage, because they now have to wait even longer for an appointment." He therefore called on the members of the association to file a lawsuit against the prioritized vaccination.
The association itself is not allowed to sue.
They also wanted to support individual members whose application for a prioritized vaccination had been rejected due to a previous illness, as spokesman Benedikt Karl explained.
Corona tests in schools also for children under 15 years
Update from March 10, 2:51 p.m.:
In addition to vaccination, testing for the coronavirus is a central point of the state government's pandemic containment policy.
That is why the two ministers Michael Piazolo (Free Voters / Kultus) and Klaus Holetschek (CSU / Health) decided to expand the range of tests at Bavarian schools across all coalitions.
As the two politicians announced on Wednesday when they visited a primary school in Munich, children under the age of 15 are expected to be able to take a corona test at the school once a week from next week.
Starting next Monday, alternating classes in Bavaria will be expanded to include other years.
So far, corona rapid tests were only intended for teachers and students over 15 years of age.
Therefore, the tests were only delivered to the schools to the appropriate extent.
Now they have agreed to expand this, declared the ministers.
The self-test offer should be voluntary, emphasized Piazolo, also for the individual schools, "if the school says we can't do it now".
One now wants to "let this grow up".
Students over 15 should still be able to test themselves at home.
The Red Cross and other organizations are supposed to help with the tests.
Coronavirus in Bavaria: decisive rule change in Munich
Masks have been compulsory in downtown Munich for months - around the clock.
But this rule has now been changed.
From now on you only have to wear a mask from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the areas around the inner-city pedestrian zones.
"Due to current case law, the period of validity will be adjusted," announced the city.
The alcohol consumption ban there continues to apply from midnight to midnight.
Update from March 10th, 2:21 pm:
Bavaria's Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) recently announced that the “vaccination turbo” would soon be started in the Free State.
For this purpose, the vaccination centers were originally supposed to be expanded further.
But apparently his plans have changed.
In a letter to all mayors it is now said that "the recently communicated expansion of capacities at the local vaccination centers will in all probability no longer be pursued".
For this, the Ministry of Health is now relying on vaccination by family doctors *.
Corona in Bavaria: border regions get vaccine replenishment
Update from March 10, 12:01 p.m.:
The Bavarian hotspots on the border with the Czech Republic are to receive another 100,000 additional doses of vaccine in the short term.
This was announced by Prime Minister Markus Söder on Wednesday after a corresponding communication from the EU.
“Good news for the border region in Bavaria.
There will be 100,000 extra doses in March, ”said Söder of the German Press Agency in Munich.
With the special allocations already promised, there will be a total of 150,000 additional doses for the border regions particularly affected by the British virus variant.
“This is a real perspective for Eastern Bavaria.
Because where it cannot be loosened due to the high incidence, more must be immunized and vaccinated. "
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria - Söder: "Now the positive news is here"
According to Söder, the districts should also be able to act a little more freely when vaccinating.
“The districts should largely be able to decide for themselves and flexibly who should be vaccinated.
This means that other groups can also get their turn more quickly. ”Söder reported that he had campaigned for both Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
"Now the positive news is here."
Von der Leyen had previously stated in Brussels that the manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer want to deliver an additional four million doses of corona vaccine to the European Union in the next two weeks.
The additional package was negotiated so that the EU states could vaccinate specifically in corona hotspots and slow down the spread of the dreaded virus variants, she said.
According to the internal EU distribution key, Germany could receive 18.6 percent of the additional quota, around 740,000 cans.
Corona incidence in the district exceeds the city of Munich - Stoiber denounces Germany's mistakes: "Have exceeded"
Update from March 10th, 8:51 a.m.:
Former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber is
calling
for the reduction of bureaucracy in the Corona crisis.
"I think we have surely exceeded the bureaucratic form," said the ex-CSU boss to
Bayerischer Rundfunk
.
“We need an error analysis.
What did we do wrong in the pandemic and in fighting the pandemic?
What went wrong?"
Stoiber thinks that parliaments should talk more about the concrete implementation of laws from the outset.
“Bureaucracy becomes independent when the provisions are too detailed and too complicated,” said Stoiber in an interview with the “Radiowelt” editorial team.
Update from March 10, 6:33 a.m.:
The RKI reports a seven-day incidence of 55.4 for the city of Munich on Wednesday (as of March 10, 3:12 a.m.).
The value has remained the same compared to the previous day.
In the district the incidence is 57.4 and has thus increased further (previous day 55.9).
The Corona hotspots in Germany are still in the Free State on Wednesday: The city of Hof is at the top with a value of 333.9, the district of Kulmbach follows in third place with 262.7.
With an incidence of 242.2, the district of Wunsiedel takes fifth place.
Weiden in the Upper Palatinate is in seventh place with an incidence of 224.6.
The districts of Schwandorf (183.3) and Tirschenreuth (176.3) are in eleventh and twelfth places.
Corona: General practitioners in Bavaria insist on vaccination permits - easing for home visits in prospect
Update from March 9, 7:33 p.m.:
The calls for a change of course in the corona vaccination campaign in Germany are
getting
louder and more violent.
In Bavaria, too, the pressure on the Ministry of Health is growing.
The Bavarian State Medical Association demanded the fastest possible participation of the resident doctors in the vaccination campaign on Tuesday.
"We have reached a certain turning point at which the state vaccine monopoly can no longer be maintained," criticized the Medical Association President Gerald Quitterer on Tuesday in Munich.
Corona in Bavaria: Impatience among doctors - family doctors want to be able to vaccinate immediately
The state government wants to stick to the schedule that the health ministers of the federal states agreed on Monday.
According to this, the general practitioners will only be allowed to vaccinate from next month.
Due to the presumably still scarce vaccine quantities in April, general practitioners should then decide for themselves which patients need the vaccination most.
The recommendations of the standing vaccination commission would provide orientation, said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) at a press conference in Munich.
Ten weeks after the start of the corona vaccinations, according to the figures of the State Ministry of Health in Bavaria vaccination centers are still vaccinated significantly less than would be possible, namely around 36,400 instead of 49,000 vaccinations daily.
The Free State ranks fifth in a nationwide comparison.
By April, around 110,000 vaccinations a day should be possible, said Holetschek and repeatedly announced his “vaccination turbo”.
Corona: Hardly any infections in old people's and nursing homes - Free State is planning to relax visits
However, impatience among medical professionals and entrepreneurs is also growing every day.
For the economy, the lockdown extension means billions in losses every week.
Much more vaccine deliveries are expected in the coming weeks.
1.67 million vaccine doses are to be delivered to Bavaria in the five weeks from the beginning of March to the beginning of April.
That would be within a month more than since the vaccination campaign began at the end of December.
After all, the vaccinations seem to be showing the first effects.
At the beginning of January there were almost 7000 infections in Bavarian retirement and nursing homes, now there are just under 300. According to Holetschek, 81 percent of residents and 57 percent of staff have already been vaccinated.
That is why the state government wants to relax the visit restrictions at the end of March.
Update from March 9, 3:31 p.m.:
Vaccinations against the
corona virus
were the topic in the cabinet today.
Health Minister Klaus Holetschek had declared that things had to be done more quickly.
Family doctors will soon also be allowed to vaccinate (see previous update).
"The system will then roll out in April," as Holetschek said.
Covid vaccinations were also an issue at the Bavarian AfD - but for a different reason.
A party member who allegedly compared a vaccination with the use of the deadly poisonous gas Zyklon B in front of the Mauthausen Memorial was excluded.
"After a video became known that was filmed by an AfD member on the grounds of the Mauthausen Memorial and the content of which compares the Nazi era with today's social conditions in an obnoxious way, the board of the AfD Bavaria immediately decided that said Exclude a member from the party and hand the matter over to the Bavarian Arbitration Court. ”The AfD regional association announced on Tuesday.
After a macabre comparison of corona vaccination and poison gas: AfD excludes member
Gerd Mannes, Vice Head of State, said that when members are accepted, no party can look into a person's head.
"The more resolute we reacted as the board of directors when the said video appeared." They acted quickly and consistently.
“We distance ourselves from any comparison or misuse of terms or events from the time of National Socialism.
Such verbal lapses are in contradiction to our party program and our free-democratic basic orientation, "said Mannes.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Austria is investigating the incident.
"To do something like this in a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust is hard to beat in terms of tastelessness," said Austria's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) on Tuesday.
The Mauthausen Committee saw the video recorded outside the memorial as a completely unacceptable trivialization of the crimes of National Socialism.
In Mauthausen and its 49 satellite camps, around 200,000 prisoners were subjected to the worst agony and humiliation between 1938 and 1945.
About 100,000 people were killed.
The goal of the Nazis was to exterminate the inmates by working specifically in the camp's stone quarries.
Söder cabinet on the corona situation in Bavaria: intensive care physicians warn of new developments
Update from March 9th, 1:58 p.m.:
Bavaria's State Chancellery boss and Corona coordinator Florian Herrmann (CSU) described the pandemic situation in the Free State's old people's homes as a success.
As he said after the cabinet meeting, the number of infections had decreased significantly there.
“That is the good news of the day,” added Health Minister Klaus Holetschek.
Herrmann also warned against a renewed increase in the number of cases in the intensive care units of the hospitals.
Occupancy is hardly going back now, but is stagnating, he said.
In the future, it could be that if the number of infections increases, especially younger people will have to be treated there, who may have to stay there longer.
This could lead to bottlenecks again.
Intensive care physicians participating in the cabinet meeting had warned against this.
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: family doctors under massive pressure?
Holetschek comments
The subject of vaccination was also discussed in the cabinet, as Bavaria's health minister said it had to go much faster.
Family doctors should therefore also soon vaccinate against corona.
At the press conference, a journalist asks whether the family doctors would then be “on fire”, that is, under massive pressure.
Because allegedly, patients would call the family doctor and request that they be vaccinated, as the journalist explained.
General practitioners "will have to do the prioritization themselves", answered Holetschek to the question.
The medical professionals should follow the guidelines of the Standing Vaccination Commission.
The documentation is to be simplified (two steps, billing with the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and registration at the Robert Koch Institute).
Corona in Bavaria: The press conference in re-live
Söder-Kabinett meets on the corona situation: The press conference for reading
1:44 p.m.:
The press conference is over.
1:37 p.m .:
"We will clarify where there is something to be clarified," says Holetschek
when asked by
a journalist about the mask deals.
"I will help that this is presented as transparently as possible." However, he wants to make it clear how the situation was in March 2020, masks were urgently needed.
It was an "exceptional situation", but this should not be used as an excuse.
Previously, unsightly allegations were made against the Bavarian Ministry of Health. *
Astrazeneca vaccine: vaccinations "run significantly better"
1:32 p.m.:
When
asked
, Holetschek reports that people partially rejected Astrazeneca at the beginning.
But that has become less.
Now it is clear that the vaccine prevents severe courses.
"That's why the vaccinations are going much better."
1:20 p.m
.: It is Klaus Holetschek's turn.
The health minister explains that the vaccination centers will remain, even if vaccination takes place in doctors' offices.
“Bureaucracy must be cut,” he clarifies.
Many people need to be vaccinated as quickly as possible.
"We want to relax the visitor regulations," says Holetschek with a view to retirement and nursing homes.
That is planned for the end of March.
The "outbreak events have, thank God, dramatically decreased", many residents and employees have been vaccinated.
“That's the good news of the day,” he says of the lower numbers.
They want to continue to say that “maybe something is also possible in groups” and that there is not just one permanent visitor.
Corona in Bavaria: Piazolo explains the "support concept" for schoolchildren
1:12 p.m.:
Minister of Education Michael Piazolo speaks after Herrmann.
In Eastern Bavarian districts there are incidences of more than 100. Therefore, no pupils will return there except for the final year.
A “support concept” has been worked out for students.
This includes, for example, bridging courses, one relies on individual remedial instruction.
In addition, the “network of counseling teachers and school psychologists” is being expanded.
A tutor program in which older students support younger ones is also to be started.
A leisure-time educational program is to be offered during the holidays, and there will be additional intensive courses during the summer holidays.
They also want to get back to school as soon as possible: If the numbers allow, events or working groups could take place again.
These measures should also be carried over into the next school year.
Where the incidence is too high, one cannot give an open perspective.
There it has to stay with distance teaching.
For elementary schools, however, they want to voluntarily offer an “open classroom day” once a week.
Experiences from distance teaching could be reflected there.
"But we do not commit."
Corona in Bavaria: What opens on March 8th?
Söder cabinet on the corona situation in Bavaria: PK NOW LIVE - intensive care physicians warn of new developments
1 p.m .:
The press conference begins.
"We did not pass any further resolutions today, no further opening steps," said State Chancellor Florian Herrmann.
But the current situation has been discussed.
“We have to keep calm and nerves.” The development looks as follows: There are 776 new infections in Bavaria, in the previous week there were fewer.
So you can see an increase.
It is "not a dramatic increase, but an increase," said Herrmann.
The incidence in Bavaria is 74.2 today.
38 other people died.
The state chancellery went on to say that the incidence values were significantly higher in the eastern Bavarian regions.
You can see a clear "spread".
The incidence in Eichstätt is 18.1, for example, while Hof is Germany's front runner with a value of 338.2.
The Corona variants are still worrying.
The danger of "exponential development" could thus be on the doorstep.
In sum: You still have a "dynamic infection process due to the variants and the borderline situation", but you have also been successful in terms of the elderly population in the homes, according to Herrmann.
Intensive care physicians also took part in the cabinet meeting today, Herrmann continues.
The numbers in the intensive care unit are declining, but not as clearly as they were some time ago, but “rather stagnating”, according to Herrmann.
One wants to continue the "course of caution and prudence".
The doctors had warned that the intensive care beds could become scarce again with an impending third wave.
This is mainly due to the fact that more younger people could then become infected, who would then have to be treated longer in the clinics.
The "danger is not averted," said Herrmann.
There is a threat of overloading the clinics.
Update from March 9, 12.48 p.m.:
The Bavarian cabinet spoke today about the current corona situation (see previous update).
There will be a press conference at 1 p.m. - here in the live stream and ticker.
Update from March 9, 12:03 p.m.:
The Bavarian cabinet is
currently
meeting on the corona situation in the Free State.
Intensive care
physicians
are also involved in the video conference with Prime Minister Söder and the Council of Ministers, as reported by
Bayerischer Rundfunk
(BR).
The topics are therefore rapid tests and vaccinations.
But the corona situation in the intensive care units should also be discussed.
According to the
BR
, it is also about the prospects of opening border regions with a particularly high incidence and how more vaccine should get there.
After the meeting there will be a press conference at 1 p.m.
You can follow them in the live stream and ticker here.
Bavarian State Medical Association demands: Practices should be allowed to vaccinate immediately
In the meantime, the Bavarian State Medical Association is demanding that resident doctors participate in the vaccination campaign as quickly as possible in view of the sluggish vaccinations against Corona.
"We have reached a certain turning point at which the state vaccine monopoly can no longer be maintained," criticized the Medical Association President Gerald Quitterer on Tuesday in Munich.
The State Medical Association calls for a procedure that is as unbureaucratic as possible: Doctors in private practice should themselves decide on the prioritization of their patients on the basis of the guidelines of the Federal Standing Vaccination Commission.
"Neither extensive documentation nor registration via the BayIMCO online appointment scheduling portal should be necessary," said Quitterer.
Corona in Bavaria: vaccination turbo thanks to new delivery soon a reality?
Bavarian cabinet meets
First report
from March 9,
10:40 a.m
.:
Munich - The Corona * situation in the Free State remains tense - at least as far as the number of cases is concerned.
Since last week they have been rising again in many counties and cities.
The Corona * hotspots in Germany are still in Bavaria.
The front runner in the seven-day incidence * is Hof in Upper Franconia with a value of 338.2.
Wunsiedel follows with 283.5, Kulmbach is fourth with a value of 257.1, Weiden is sixth (238.6).
Corona vaccinations "only real long-term strategy" - vaccination centers are working below capacity limits
Great hope lies in vaccinating * against the virus.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder * had already described vaccinations several times as the “only real long-term strategy”.
The CSU * boss had also repeatedly complained that the vaccination in Germany was going too slowly.
This is also the case ten weeks after the start of the corona vaccinations *: Bavaria's vaccination centers are still working below their capacity limits.
In the past week, an average of 36,400 people were vaccinated every day.
According to the Ministry of Health in Munich, a maximum of 49,000 vaccinations * would be possible.
Significantly more vaccine is expected in the coming weeks.
In the five weeks from the beginning of March to the beginning of April, 1.67 million vaccine doses are to be delivered to Bavaria.
That would be within a month more than since the vaccination campaign began at the end of December.
Corona in Bavaria: vaccination capacities are to be expanded
"We have instructed the districts to expand capacities in the coming weeks and to enable around 110,000 vaccinations per day by April," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health.
Health Minister Klaus Holetschek invented the term “vaccine turbo” for this purpose.
The federal vaccination strategy also stipulates that family and company doctors may also vaccinate during the second quarter from April to the end of June.
People do not want to be vaccinated with Astrazeneca - so far only a few vaccine doses have therefore been discarded
A nationwide problem so far is that many people do not want to be vaccinated with the Astrazeneca vaccine.
There have been reports that many people either do not keep their appointment or ultimately refuse to have a vaccination on site.
According to the ministry, there are no statistics on this.
However, the problem does not mean that many vaccine doses have to be thrown away.
In such cases, the vaccination centers offer replacement candidates the vaccination at short notice.
So far, only 3328 vaccine doses have been discarded, which corresponds to 0.2 percent of the 1.6 million doses delivered by Monday.
Corona in Bavaria: Cabinet meets - press conference announced
It is still unclear whether the vaccination issue also preoccupied the Bavarian cabinet on Tuesday.
There will be a press conference after the meeting, which started at ten o'clock.
State Chancellor Florian Herrmann, Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek and Minister of Education Michael Piazolo will then provide information on the results.
You can follow the press conference at 1 p.m. here in the live stream and ticker.
(
kam / dpa)
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