Bavarian region tightened rules: the situation is coming to a head - vaccination centers should start operating again

The sudden increase in the number of corona cases in Bavaria is leaving its mark.

Pink alert prevails in seven districts, and over 20 municipalities no longer report a single free intensive care bed.

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• The corona situation in Bavaria is coming to a head: not a single intensive care bed is free in 23 municipalities.

  (See first report)

• Bavarian hospital society fears a bad Corona winter.

  (See update November 2, 2:49 p.m.)

• Lower Bavaria is massively skipping corona measures.

  (See update from November 2, 4:16 p.m.)

Update from November 2, 4:50 p.m.:

Bavaria apparently wants to ramp up the capacities of the vaccination centers again.

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The newspaper had a letter from the government asking "how much time it will take to increase to the intended maximum capacity." The Nuremberg vaccination center confirmed this in the

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"We are - like probably all Bavarian vaccination centers - prepared for it," said a spokeswoman.

It remains to be seen whether the state government will use this to promote booster vaccinations.

Dramatic corona situation in Bavaria: first region tightened rules

Update from November 2, 4:16 p.m.:

The Lower Bavaria administrative region is reacting to the increasing number of infections. New corona measures will apply from Wednesday (November 3rd) in the nine districts of Kelheim, Landshut, Regen, Deggendorf, Straubing-Bogen, Dingolfing-Landshut, Rottal-Inn, Passau, and Freyung-Grafenau as well as in the three independent cities of Passau, Straubing and Landshut. This includes, for example, an FFP2 mask requirement in all areas in which a medical make-up was sufficient beforehand. Where 3Gplus was previously applied, 2G will be mandatory in the future.

The stricter measures are the result of a meeting between district administrators and mayors with the district president Rainer Haslbeck.

“The situation in the Lower Bavarian hospitals is becoming increasingly dramatic.

The medical care of intensive care patients is at risk, ”he said.

Bavarian hospitals worry about the Corona winter: "A great ethical dilemma"

Update from November 2, 2:49 p.m.:

The corona situation in Bavarian hospitals is serious. "We are very concerned that we will get into a situation that is at least as bad and threatening as last winter," said Roland Engehausen, managing director of the Bavarian Hospital Society, on Tuesday of the German press agency. "The current rapid increase in the number of infections will reach hospitals in about two weeks."

If there are no free intensive care beds, patients have to be sent to other hospitals after accidents or emergencies.

In addition, surgeons have to postpone those operations after which patients come to an intensive care unit for observation.

Engehausen cited tumor operations for cancer patients as an example: "This means a great ethical dilemma for hospitals if they are forced to postpone the treatment of a vaccinated oncology patient because an unvaccinated Covid patient is in the intensive care unit."

Corona: The intensive care bed situation in Bavaria is coming to a head

First report from November 2, 1:16 p.m.:

Munich - The incidences in Bavaria continue to rise rapidly.

Since Tuesday (November 2), longer quarantine times for contact persons have been in effect again.

There is already a pink alert in seven districts.

This means that the incidence there is already over 500.

In three counties it has even exceeded 600.

The district of Mühldorf am Inn currently has the highest value in Germany with a 7-day incidence of 650.7.

This is followed by Miesbach (620.9) and Traunstein (614.7).

The acute Corona * situation can also be felt in the Bavarian hospitals.

(By the way: Our Bavaria newsletter informs you about all the important stories from the Free State. Register here.)

Corona situation in Bavaria: not a single intensive care bed is free in 23 municipalities

On Tuesday, 40 of the 96 Bavarian districts and independent cities reported that they had less than ten percent free intensive care beds available.

In 23 municipalities, not a single intensive care bed was free, as can be seen from the daily updated intensive care register.

Throughout Bavaria, 455 Covid patients were in intensive care units, almost 200 more than two weeks ago.

The intensive care units in the greater Nuremberg * -Fürth-Erlangen area are fully or almost fully occupied.

A chief doctor from Fürth recently complained about the current situation on Instagram and called for a change in the health system.

The situation in large parts of Upper Bavaria and in eastern Lower Bavaria is just as precarious.

Will new restrictions only come when the clinic traffic light turns red?

The state government's corona traffic light, which serves as an indicator of the load on the clinics, is still green.

The traffic light would be switched to red if the nationwide number of Covid intensive care patients rose to 600.

This would be linked to renewed restrictions on public life.

In a press conference tomorrow, Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) could, however, decide on stricter restrictions in advance.

The high number of corona intensive care patients is already restricting regular operations in some hospitals.

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