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Miesbach is Germany's Corona hotspot - District Administrator appeals to organizers

2021-11-04T07:55:51.022Z


Nowhere else in Germany is the incidence as high as in the Miesbach district. District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) looks to the winter with great worries - and appeals to cancel all unnecessary events.


Nowhere else in Germany is the incidence as high as in the Miesbach district.

District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) looks to the winter with great worries - and appeals to cancel all unnecessary events.

Miesbach

- Miesbach is the front runner. However, in a ranking that nobody likes to top. With a 7-day incidence of 682.8, the Alpine district yesterday had the highest infection rate in the entire Federal Republic. "It has become apparent, but I would not have thought that it would go so quickly," says Miesbach District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU). Last winter, his district locked visitors from the surrounding area in order to cope with the pandemic. "Today the incidence is three times as high and our hospital is even fuller," says the district administrator. It's never been so bad. "

It is the situation in the clinic that causes von Löwis the greatest concern.

"It's five past twelve, we can no longer work properly there." Already now, many operations have to be postponed.

It shouldn't get to the point where there is no space left for questions about life and death.

In addition, there is concern about the region's economic strength.

The winter season is approaching, tourism is an important source of income in Miesbach.

"There will of course be a permanently high number of infections," says von Löwis.

Especially now, when hotels and restaurants have just recovered.

The contact followers can no longer keep up

Even the district administrator can only vaguely describe where the high numbers of infections come from. At 66 percent, the vaccination rate is in line with Bavaria's average. “As everywhere, we observe high numbers of infections among young people.” Yesterday, the incidences of the age groups 5 to 14 and 15 to 34 in Miesbach were over 1,000 especially widespread. ”Then there are the rumors about corona parties, at which young people allegedly deliberately wanted to become infected in order to be considered as convalescent. None of this has been proven, but von Löwis does not consider it to be ruled out. "Our problem is that we can simply no longer understand the exact chains of infection." The contact followers in the health department cannot keep up with around 100 new cases every day,to check out all contacts. Soldiers of the Bundeswehr have been helping in the district again since yesterday. "One thing is clear: the many contacts with one another are the main cause."

That is why the district administrator urges all organizers in his region to forego all mass events. Leonhardi rides, Christmas markets, citizens' assemblies - "We cannot ban all of that, but we can appeal not to hold it off." In consultation with the districts of southeast Bavaria, which are also affected by the high level of infection, stricter corona rules have been in effect in Miesbach since Monday: Obligation to wear FFP2 instead of a medical mask. 2G instead of 3Gplus in discos and clubs with increased controls. Yesterday, the cabinet also decided on the details of the Corona hospital traffic light (see focus). In addition, the quarantine regulations are now to be tightened in the south-east Bavarian districts. Citizens can only test themselves there after ten days from quarantine.“We can't do much more at the district level,” says von Löwis.

To this end, he wants to advertise third-party vaccinations for everyone, despite the still pending Stiko recommendation.

“All of our doctors tell me that it helps.” He too wants to get the booster injection as soon as his second vaccination is six months ago.

Again and again he hears from citizens in the district that they are not afraid of Corona.

“But that's not the point,” he says.

“It's about consideration.

And now we are all challenged. "

Source: merkur

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