Corona in Bavaria: Holetschek shortens quarantine - and defends itself against traffic light criticism

The incidences in Bavaria are still in the red.

But the hospital traffic light is decisive for measures.

Holetschek is now defending against criticism of the system and is shortening the quarantine.

Munich - Bavaria is shortening the corona quarantine times and reorganizing contact tracking.

Close contacts of people infected with corona now have to be in isolation for ten days or can test themselves after five days with a PCR test or after seven days with an antigen rapid test, as Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) said in Munich on Friday.

Quarantine is not required for those who have been fully vaccinated or have recovered.

Corona in Bavaria: New quarantine rules in force

In future, contact tracking will be prioritized: situations with a high risk of transmission, such as celebrations, will be dealt with first.

Cases in which people with an increased risk of a severe disease progression are involved, such as in old people's homes, should be processed more quickly.

"In situations with a low risk of transmission and without endangering risk groups, the health authorities can treat contact person follow-up with a lower priority," says the message.

The changes, which are based on the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), have been in force since Thursday.

Criticism of Corona traffic lights in Bavaria - are the numbers far too low?

Meanwhile, there was criticism of the traffic light system in Bavaria, which, as is well known, has replaced the incidence values ​​as the decisive value.

Experts such as statistics professor Helmut Küchenhoff from LMU Munich recently stated that the values ​​on which the traffic light is based, such as the 7-day number of Covid patients in hospitals and the number of intensive care beds occupied by corona patients, are calculated inaccurately and the daily updated Values ​​for Bavaria are up to 80 percent too low.

The suspicion: The number of cases is only transmitted to the LGL with a delay.

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Holetschek defends itself against criticism of the traffic light system

Holetschek vehemently rejects this: "With the State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) as a traffic light monitor and knowledge hub in Bavaria, we have set up such a comprehensive and far-reaching monitoring system that we can reliably assess Bavaria's corona situation in both the short and medium term."

According to the Ministry of Health, there is no need to worry: "In view of the millions of successful vaccinations, the incidence of hospitalization and the Bavarian hospital traffic light are now necessary and correct parameters for assessing the pandemic in Germany and Bavaria," said a spokesman.

It was a conscious decision to focus on clarity and traceability at the traffic lights.

When reviewing the pandemic, the further increasing vaccination rate, the burden on hospitals and the 7-day incidence of different age groups will be included every day to assess the situation, it said. According to the spokesman, the hospital traffic light is “based on nominally comprehensible values ​​- the focus is on the 7-day hospitalization rate in Bavaria and the utilization of intensive care capacities”.

Further: "It (the hospital traffic light) is green today, but it is under our daily observation together with all other available parameters and is based on the necessary close, timely and reliable cooperation between our health authorities, our hospitals, the LGL and the RKI (Robert Koch Institute) in Berlin. “Bavaria is very well positioned with this system.

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