Family doctors in Bavaria should soon be able to vaccinate against corona.
In Munich, the seven-day incidence continues to rise.
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Family doctors in Bavaria should soon be able to vaccinate against Corona * (see update from March 12, 7:04 a.m.).
The seven-day incidence * in Munich is skyrocketing (see update from March 12, 9:09 a.m.).
Children and adolescents with a cold will in future have to show a negative corona test * before going to school (see update from March 12, 4:19 p.m.).
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Update from March 12, 4:19 p.m.:
The rule has already been announced for daycare centers, now the same applies to schools: Children and adolescents with a cold will in future have to show a negative corona test before going to school in Bavaria.
The test must be carried out in the test center, in pharmacies or at doctors, the Ministry of Education announced on Friday in Munich.
A negative self-test is not enough for going to school.
School attendance is only possible without a test if you have a cold or a cough with an allergic cause (e.g. hay fever).
An exception also applies to a stuffy nose without a fever, occasional coughing, scratching the throat or clearing the throat.
The compulsory test for colds will apply from next Monday before visiting daycare centers and after-school care centers, as the responsible Ministry of Social Affairs announced on Thursday.
The regulation is justified with the growing concern of the spreading coronavirus mutation.
The latest, suddenly introduced regulation for daycare visits leaves parents in despair *: Children need a negative corona test even with the slightest cold.
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria's medical practices - Söder: "Start very consciously"
Update from March 12, 2:59 p.m.:
From the beginning of April, vaccinations against the
corona virus will
also take place in medical practices in Bavaria - nationwide, according to the plan.
But the lack of vaccine is likely to continue to cause problems.
“We are already starting to integrate family doctors in Bavaria on April 1st.
There won't be so much vaccine yet, but we're starting very deliberately, ”said Prime Minister Markus Söder on Friday in Nuremberg.
The CSU boss hopes from the early start that the practices, when finally “a lot more vaccine is available”, will be able to vaccinate many people.
The current shortage of vaccine is "extremely annoying".
Corona in Bavaria: Vaccinations soon also in doctor's offices
Regardless of the fixed date, vaccine deliveries are still the big unknown in the equation.
"We expect that the vaccine deliveries from the federal government will enable doctors' practices to offer their patients a vaccination offer on April 1st," stressed Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU).
“In Bavaria, the physicians in private practice will complement the Bavarian vaccination strategy as a second pillar from the beginning of April.”
According to Holetschek, the vaccination centers in the Free State are to be supplied with 350,000 doses of vaccine per week in April.
Deliveries beyond this should go to the practices according to a defined distribution key.
“Based on the prognosis of the federal government, we assume that, for example, around 121,000 vaccine doses can be inoculated in doctors' offices in the week after Easter.
This sum should continue to increase weekly in the course of April and May, ”said Holetschek.
In the next step, company doctors should be involved.
Söder rushes forward on the subject of corona vaccinations - Aiwanger with a gastro proposal
While Söder is pushing ahead on the subject of vaccinations (see previous update), Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger has also made a proposal - a preferred opening of inns with better equipment for corona protection.
If it has been proven that air purifiers render the viruses harmless, indoor spaces must be treated with devices like outdoor areas, he said on Friday at the presentation of a study on indoor air cleaning. *
Anyone who spends a lot of money on protective measures should also be allowed to let people in, Aiwanger said.
He considers differences depending on the equipment to be sensible.
A restaurant equipped with air purifiers, which tests its guests, can then just be opened, "and the other just not".
Aiwanger called for more technology to be used in the fight against Corona and more differentiated solutions to be found.
This is overdue to "bring back as much normality as possible".
Corona in Bavaria: More freedom for vaccinated people?
Söder rushes forward
Update from March 12th, 12.30 p.m.:
On Friday Markus Söder visited a grammar school in Nuremberg together with Lord Mayor Marcus König.
At a press conference it became clear that Bavaria wants to continue to rely on the two pillars of testing and vaccination.
On the subject of vaccination, Söder made it clear that there would be no obligation.
Bavaria's Prime Minister spoke of the fact that vaccinated people should have more rights and more freedoms. * A vaccination certificate is required so that a person who has been vaccinated “does not have the same restrictions as someone who has not been vaccinated”.
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: Holetschek announces great news - incidence in Munich is skyrocketing
Update from March 12, 9:09 a.m.:
The seven-day incidence in Munich has continued to rise.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it is 63.3 (as of March 12, 3:21 a.m.).
On Thursday the value was 56.9.
Corona: General practitioners in Bavaria should be able to vaccinate against the virus earlier than elsewhere in Germany
In Bavaria, general practitioners should be able to vaccinate against the corona virus earlier than elsewhere in Germany.
"We expect the federal vaccine deliveries to enable doctors' practices to offer their patients a vaccination offer on April 1," said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU), according to a statement on Friday.
"From the beginning of April in Bavaria the resident doctors will complement the Bavarian vaccination strategy as a second pillar" (see previous update).
The federal and state health ministers decided on Wednesday to start corona vaccinations in the doctor's offices as early as possible, but no later than the week of April 19.
To see the implementation of the corona test concept, Prime Minister Markus Söder will visit a high school in his hometown of Nuremberg on Friday. *
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: Holetschek announces great news - but there is a damper
Update from March 12,
7:04 a.m
.:
Bavaria wants to massively increase the vaccination speed with a vaccination alliance of doctors, pharmacies and local vaccination centers.
"From the beginning of April in Bavaria the resident doctors will complement the Bavarian vaccination strategy as a second pillar," said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) in a statement on Friday.
According to Holetschek, the vaccination centers in the Free State are to be supplied with 350,000 doses of vaccine per week in April.
Deliveries beyond this should go to the practices.
"Based on the prognosis of the federal government, we assume that, for example, in the week after Easter around 121,000 vaccine doses can be inoculated in doctors' offices." The total number of available vaccine doses should then increase from week to week.
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: Holetschek gives hope but there is a problem
Bavaria's district council president Christian Bernreiter (CSU) told the “Passauer Neue Presse” in an interview on Friday: “Just because doctors' practices are involved, there is no longer one vaccine dose available.” At the beginning of April, a practice will only have about five to six vaccine doses per day have available.
Week after week there will be more.
Update from March 11th, 10:17 pm:
Clear announcement from
Bavaria's Art Minister Bernd Sibler: The CSU politician would like to “get away from rigid audience numbers” when theaters, concert halls and opera houses are planned to open from March 22nd.
"The maximum number of spectators will depend on the local conditions as well as compliance with the prescribed minimum distance and the common hygiene requirements," said Sibler on Thursday (March 11th) in Munich.
More details are still being worked out.
Corona in Bavaria: Clear announcement from Söder colleague to open theaters and opera houses
As early as March 4th, the Bavarian cabinet decided to open theaters, concert halls and opera houses from March 22nd.
However, only if the corona incidence has not exceeded 100 for at least 14 days and the development of the infection rate is stable or declining.
Visitors must submit a daily negative corona test if the incidence is between 50 and 100.
The houses can offer these to their public at the entrance.
If the incidence is stable below 50, no tests are necessary, according to the Ministry of Art.
Corona in Bavaria: Stricter daycare rules from next week
Update from March 11, 2:41 p.m.:
Children and educators with symptoms of a cold must show a negative corona test from next Monday to visit daycare centers across Bavaria.
The responsible Ministry of Social Affairs announced on Thursday in Munich.
The general hygiene plan, valid from March 15, thus again implements the recommendation of the advisory medical profession and is justified with the growing concern of the spreading coronavirus mutation.
After illness, a negative test must also be presented before returning to the day care center.
However, only tests carried out by specialist staff are accepted; lay tests are not "sufficient".
“Due to the increasing spread of the virus mutation and the associated increase in incidence, we have a new situation that worries us.
In their development, small children go through numerous mild infections with symptoms that unfortunately cannot be distinguished from a corona infection at first glance in the current pandemic. ”That said, Minister of Social Affairs Carolina Trautner (CSU).
She is aware that additional tests are associated with additional work for the parents.
The new rule, however, serves to protect employees, parents and their children.
"The early detection of new infections through tests is essential, especially with a view to more contagious virus mutations, in order to contain the spread of Covid-19," said Markus Beier, Chairman of the Bavarian Association of General Practitioners.
As before, according to the new rule, sick children or carers, for example with fever and diarrhea, are not allowed to attend childcare.
Corona in Bavaria: anger about vaccination plan change - Streeck agrees with Söder - "the most social people next"
First report from March 11, 12:04 p.m
.: Munich - Double the capacities of the Corona * vaccination centers in Bavaria as quickly as possible: That was actually the “vaccination turbo” plan by Health Minister Klaus Holetschek.
But suddenly everything looks completely different.
The short-term change of plan, not to expand the capacities of the impregnation centers, caused displeasure. * Munich health officer Beatrix Zurek was irritated.
It is difficult to implement plans "when the vaccination strategy of the federal and state governments changes so quickly and unpredictably on this question, which is vital for all of us."
Corona / Bavaria: Söder announces further vaccination doses for border regions
At the moment, vaccination * is still going too slowly.
Soon, vaccinations against corona will also be carried out in doctors' offices.
The starting shot for this will probably be given no later than mid-April.
Prime Minister Markus Söder had repeatedly called corona vaccinations * the "only real long-term strategy".
The regions on the border that are particularly affected by the virus and the mutations * will receive "100,000 extra doses of vaccine" in March. The CSU * boss said this to the German press agency on Wednesday.
"Where there is no loosening due to the high incidence, more must be immunized and vaccinated."
“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 advocated Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU *) and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Younger people should therefore be vaccinated, in hotspots.
Does this make sense?
Should younger people soon be vaccinated against Corona - Streeck: "It is imperative to discuss"
“That can and should be discussed,” says virologist Hendrik Streeck in the
Merkur.de
interview.
The first thought, i.e. to protect endangered groups first, was correct.
"But now that the elderly are protected - the best way to slow the pandemic in the next step is when the most social people are vaccinated next." One always speaks of exponential growth, "which is not entirely true." The infection rate is of course exponential Share, "but we are talking about heterogeneous distribution, as it spreads at different speeds in social groups," Streeck told
Merkur.de.
Several vaccines * have now been approved, and more tests are coming. * For example, free rapid tests have been possible in Bavaria's pharmacies since Thursday (March 11).
Despite strict measures, the corona numbers are increasing.
Is that why Germany threatens another lockdown *?
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Virologist Hendrick Streeck agrees with Markus Söder (archive picture).
© Federico Gambarini / dpa / dpa-Bildfunk
Corona regional: The update for Bavaria
Another corona lockdown?
Slight increase - "You have to watch that now"
“At the moment there is stagnation or a slight increase in the number of new infections, that is a fact.
This can quickly lead to an increasing wave movement, ”explains Streeck.
“But it is important to remember that the change as we see it will not come from the easing that has been decided upon.
You have to watch that now. ”After all, the increase“ has not been as extreme as feared so far, ”continues Streck.
Whether he comes through the mutations * is also difficult to say.
"Until recently, we saw in the big hotspots in Bavaria and Thuringia on the Czech border that these are not the places where the most common mutations have so far
occurred
."
(Kam / dpa) * Merkur.de / bayern is an offer from IPPEN. MEDIA
You can find all currently applicable rules in Bavaria in our overview. *
