The corona situation in Bavaria remains tense: the infections are increasing, the intensive care units are full.
And the number of corona deaths is also increasing dramatically.
The news ticker.
In Bavaria, the number of Corona * deaths is increasing rapidly (see update from November 11, 8:30 a.m.).
The hospitals are full (see update from November 10th, 8:19 p.m.).
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Update from November 11th, 8:30 a.m
.: The number of corona deaths in Bavaria is increasing rapidly. The Robert Koch Institute reported 71 new pandemic victims in Bavaria on Thursday morning, almost a third of the 234 deaths counted nationwide and thus a figure well above the national average.
As of Wednesday, the pandemic in the Free State claimed 234 deaths within a week, more than in any other state. This emerges from the daily updated evaluation of the Munich Ludwig Maximilians University. In relation to the number of deaths in October, that is more than double.
The Bavaria-wide corona incidence exceeded the threshold of 400 on Thursday with a value of 427.4. The RKI reported 13,456 new infections. As before, five Bavarian districts with the highest incidences nationwide are at the top. In first place is Rottal-Inn with an incidence of 1140.4.
Update from November 11, 7:23 a.m.:
On Wednesday, Bavaria announced that it would
declare a
disaster.
The reason is the dramatically increasing corona numbers.
The State Chancellery announced on Wednesday in Munich that Prime Minister Markus Söder ordered the disaster to be established from November 11, 2021 due to the "current worrying situation in the corona pandemic."
Update from November 11th, 6.30 a.m.:
The situation in Bavaria's clinics is tense.
In Rosenheim, the number is currently higher than last winter, when there were no vaccinations.
"But at that time there was a lockdown *, which is why significantly fewer accident patients were admitted," emphasizes clinic managing director Jens Deerberg-Wittram.
“The clinics call for help”: Söder explains the disaster has been declared
Update from November 10, 8:19 p.m.:
For Söder, declaring a nationwide disaster was inevitable in the current situation. He was following a "call for help and a request from the local clinics and also from local politicians to have a legally sound set of instruments in order to react independently," he told the BR. The clinics are full. Competitive situations would arise, "of course also among Covid patients," said the Prime Minister.
90 percent of corona patients in intensive care units are not vaccinated.
The competition between unvaccinated and vaccinated Covid patients as well as cancer, heart attack and stroke patients for an intensive care bed "ultimately leads to a deep division," says Söder.
He is therefore calling for more measures - for example compulsory vaccinations in certain professions - from the new government.
The seriousness of the situation had not yet been recognized there, he informed the BR.
The first regions in Bavaria have now also reacted to the high numbers of infections.
First cities are canceling Christmas markets again.
Corona situation in Bavaria dramatic: Söder declares a disaster
Munich - Despite red hospital traffic lights and strongly tightened corona rules, the situation in Bavaria is getting worse. The Rottal-Inn district reports the astronomically high incidence of 1104.3. District Administrator Fahmüller says: "You can no longer say it nicely: The situation is dramatic." And it doesn't look any better in the hospitals either. In 96 districts and larger cities, only ten percent of the intensive care beds were free on Wednesday. In order to be able to react more quickly to the negative trend, Prime Minister Markus Söder declared a disaster.
The determination of the disaster enables a coordinated and structured approach by all authorities, agencies and organizations involved in disaster control.
The disaster in the corona pandemic was already declared on December 9, 2020, it was not lifted again until June 4, 2021.
Corona in Bavaria: 21 municipalities no longer have any space in their intensive care units
653 people were in the intensive care unit of a Bavarian hospital with Covid 19 on Wednesday, according to the DIVI register. That is a good 130 more than a week ago and around twice as many as three weeks ago. If there are more than 600 occupied beds, the red traffic light level applies in the Free State. Stricter measures and rules - such as 3G in the workplace and an expansion of the 2G rule - are intended to prevent further increases. And it is high time. 21 municipalities reported that the intensive care units in their clinics are occupied down to the last bed. On the national average, almost 91 percent of the intensive care beds are occupied.
What happens now in an emergency?
If all intensive care beds in a community are occupied, new intensive care patients must be treated in other hospitals further away from the place of residence or accident.
Such transfers have been practiced within Bavaria for weeks.
Hospitals with a high number of corona patients are also forced to postpone planned operations.
The reason is that patients usually come to the intensive care unit for observation after major interventions - for example tumor operations.
According to the intensive care register (DIVI), the vast majority of Bavarian hospitals report restrictions on regular operations.
Despite the enormously high numbers, the Munich-based infectiologist Christoph Spinner does not consider a further lockdown to be helpful.
Video: These corona rules now apply in Bavaria
Corona in Bavaria: The police can only carry out random checks
On Tuesday, the Bavarian cabinet decided that the stricter rules - which have been in effect since the switch to red - should be more closely monitored.
But the police union can hardly do that.
"We do not have the emergency services available for area-wide controls," said the state chairman of the German police union in Bavaria, Jürgen Köhnlein, the radio station
Antenne Bayern
.
It is a knee-jerk reaction from politicians: "The police will fix it".
New and tightened controls always meant an additional burden for the police.
“In contrast to the measures taken during the other three waves, we are currently already running at full load.
Football games, demonstrations - the event situation is enormous, ”emphasized Köhnlein, according to a union spokesman on Wednesday.
“It won't work without the support of riot police.
But then they are missing again on the other missions or work a lot of overtime, ”warned the union boss.
(tel with dpa)
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