Special path for Bavaria after the corona summit? Söder has very specific demands

On Thursday the federal and state governments will meet for a corona summit.

Prime Minister Söder is campaigning for clear measures.

All the news in the Bayern ticker.

• The Corona * summit of the federal and state governments will take place on Thursday.

  Söder * has clearly positioned itself in advance

  (see update from November 18, 2:49 p.m.)

• The incidence in Bavaria continues to rise, Munich is making a leap up

  (see update from November 18, 8.25 a.m.).

• You can find all the news about the federal-state meeting related to Bavaria in this ticker.

Update from November 18, 4:20 p.m.:

The deliberations of the federal and state governments at the Corona summit in Berlin are in full swing. The latest draft resolution provides for measures for further action in the pandemic in a total of 18 individual points. During the MPK, Markus Söder apparently called for a quick lockdown for unvaccinated people, as well as "a quick partial compulsory vaccination". Daniel Cremer, editor-in-chief of

Bayern,

reports this on

Twitter. The compulsory vaccination should be "broader than too narrow", quoted Cremer Söder further.

Update from November 18, 3:49 p.m.:

The number of corona vaccinations in Bavaria is increasing every day.

On Wednesday, for example, around 95,000 vaccinations were administered in just one day, as the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday when asked by the dpa.

That is the highest value in weeks.

For comparison: on Wednesday of last week a total of 69,000 vaccinations had been administered, on the previous Wednesday 38,000.

The majority of the doses were booster vaccinations.

But the first vaccinations were also 14,600 vaccinations, higher than they had been for many weeks.

Special path for Bavaria after the corona summit?

Söder has specific demands

Update from November 18, 2:49 p.m.:

Bavaria's Prime Minister has once again clearly positioned himself. In a recent Twitter article, Markus Söder reveals what, in his opinion, should be the focus of today's MPK. "We need 2G nationwide and 3G at work, booster vaccinations after five months and a care bonus," you can read there. Today's gathering would no doubt take place "in grave times." Söder also emphasizes that this will be the last MPK for Angela Merkel and expressly thanks the Chancellor for the good cooperation.

Update from November 18, 12.27 p.m.:

The Bundestag has voted.

The “epidemic of national scope” expires on November 25th.

This enabled the traffic light parties' corona plans to prevail.

For this purpose, the federal states can - by resolution of the state parliament - also take further measures such as mask requirements or contact restrictions.

In addition, new corona regulations, such as a 3G regulation at the workplace or test obligations for employees and visitors in nursing homes and clinics, should take effect.

The 3G regulation should also take effect in local public transport.

The police and trade unions had already criticized that such controls were difficult to implement.

Bavaria's intensive care units are facing a new corona high

Update from November 18, 11:39 a.m.:

Bavaria's hospitals are about to set a new maximum number of intensive care patients in the corona pandemic. On Thursday there were 866 Covid patients in the intensive care units. This is evident from the intensive register. The number of intensive care patients has been rising continuously for three months, last Saturday it was 707. The previous high in Bavaria was reached with 910 intensive care patients shortly before the turn of the year. Subsequently, however, after the lockdown imposed in December, the numbers fell rapidly. No lockdown is planned at the moment, but hospitals expect the numbers to continue to rise.

Update from November 18, 11:22 a.m.:

There is a pink alert in Munich, the incidence is over 500. To be more precise, the RKI reported a value of 694.8 on Thursday (see previous update).

The city is now calling for vaccinations on Twitter and answering questions about the booster vaccination. * "Of course, our vaccination doctors still love to give initial vaccinations," they say.

Söder-Sonderweg preprogrammed for Bavaria: Munich numbers are racing upwards - pink alert applies

Update from November 18, 8.25 a.m.:

Today the federal and state governments are meeting on the current Corona situation (see previous updates).

That seems to be necessary, because the situation is getting worse.

On Thursday, the incidence reported by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for the Free State reached 609.5.

The day before, a value of 568.4 was reported.

Bavaria thus has the second highest incidence nationwide after Saxony.

Within one day, the number of reported Covid 19 cases in Bavaria rose by 19,141.

If the trend continues, the limit of one million reported infections since the beginning of the pandemic will likely be reached on Friday.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths rose by 85 to 16,810.

Rottal-Inn with incidence over 1300 - Munich value jumps up

The highest incidence in Bavaria was reported on Thursday at 1359.6 for the Rottal-Inn district. This is followed by the districts of Freyung-Grafenau with 1272.4 and Mühldorf am Inn with 1138.4. In total there are seven districts with incidences over 1000. The lowest value in Bavaria is currently reported from the independent city of Amberg with 209.3.

The numbers are based on data from the RKI from Thursday morning and may change at a later date.

In addition, there have been delays in reporting in individual cities and districts in the past, which distorted the values ​​downwards.

Among other things, Munich was affected.

Since the Bundeswehr has been helping with the registration there, the reported values ​​have increased rapidly.

On Thursday, the RKI reported an incidence of 694.8 for the city of Munich.

This means that the pink alert is now in effect.

Just a week ago, the downwardly distorted official value was 93.3.

On Wednesday it was 496.6.

MPK meets on the corona situation - Söder statement announced

Update from November 18, 7:20 a.m.:

Today the Prime Minister's Conference meets via video with the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel about corona measures. This will be followed by a press conference with Merkel, Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst and the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller. This is followed by a statement by the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder from Munich.

Update from November 18, 6:10 a.m.:

Today the federal and state governments are discussing the current corona situation.

Markus Söder called for stricter rules for unvaccinated people on Wednesday evening (see previous update).

In view of the situation, contact restrictions for unvaccinated people are absolutely sensible, said the CSU boss on Wednesday evening in the ARD program "Maischberger Die Woche".

He also affirmed that Bavaria would make full use of the legal options that the new federal law would give.

In Bavaria, Söder has already tightened the corona rules significantly in the past few weeks, but only step by step.

But the Free State is doing what is legally possible, Söder emphasized at a cabinet meeting on Sunday and Monday.

3G at work - Söder calls for mandatory vaccinations in health care

With a view to protection against infection in the workplace, it is important that employers are given a right to information about the vaccination status of employees, Söder said now. Should employees refuse the 3G rules, i.e. access only for those who have been vaccinated, tested or recovered, they would have to work in the home office. For special professions, such as in health care, there is also a compulsory vaccination.

In view of the high corona numbers and the extreme dynamics of new infections, Söder takes a critical view of the Christmas markets: "I would recommend canceling them." For major events there is also an “urgent need for upper limits”, stressed Söder.

Söder again rejected criticism of the corona management in the Free State.

The main reason for the difficult situation, which also surprised many experts, is the still too low vaccination rate.

In Bavaria, 4.6 million people are still without vaccination protection.

Where there are now the highest incidences, the vaccination rate is lowest.

Even without a legal obligation, there is a moral obligation to vaccinate everyone to protect themselves and their fellow human beings.

Söder can be seen in the cards before the Corona summit - a special route for Bavaria is inevitable

Update from November 17, 11:42 p.m.:

On the eve of the day that is decisive for the further corona policy, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder spoke again. He considers stricter rules for unvaccinated people to be necessary, affirmed Söder in the ARD program “Maischberger. The week". In Bavaria, the legal possibilities opened up by the new law of the traffic light coalition will be fully exploited, he announced. Perhaps there will be stricter rules in some federal states - including the Free State - than elsewhere.

Not only the law that is being discussed in the Bundestag will be decisive on Thursday, but also the subsequent Corona summit between the federal government and the states.

The Union-led countries and the Chancellery have drawn up a draft resolution that goes far beyond the options proposed in the Traffic Light Act.

Which rules Söder wants to apply in view of the tense corona situation in Bavaria will mainly depend on the summit deliberations.

Following the Prime Minister's Conference and the subsequent statements by Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, Söder wants to report to a press conference from Munich.

Then he could at least provide information on new regulations in Bavaria.

Söder criticizes federal-state meetings and makes demands - "This dispute does not bring any of us anything"

First report from November 17th:

Munich - On Thursday afternoon (November 18th) there will be a federal-state meeting.

The reason is the tense Corona * situation in Germany.

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has recently called for such a summit - but the CSU * boss is not satisfied with the timing.

"It would have been better, instead of having a Prime Minister's Conference on Thursday afternoon, to do it in the morning or Wednesday - before the law is passed," criticized Söder on Tuesday in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".

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Söder criticizes the time for the corona summit - the epidemic situation should not be extended

The new version of the Infection Protection Act is to be decided in the Bundestag on Thursday.

In view of the increasing number of corona infections, an expanded catalog with possible containment measures is to be specified.

Other measures, such as lockdowns or general closings of schools or shops, are no longer planned.

The parliamentary groups of the possible traffic light coalition of SPD *, Greens * and FDP * had agreed on this.

Also, the current epidemic situation of national scope should not be prolonged, which sometimes meets with a lack of understanding among experts.

Federal-state meeting on the corona situation - Söder becomes clear: "This dispute does not bring any of us anything"

The countries should now hear what will be passed, criticized Söder.

"I would have found a joint approach better." The dispute over the measures was also noticeable in the coalition negotiations.

"There is one part who defends itself with hands and feet against tightened measures - that is the FDP," said Söder.

The others tried to solve something.

"This argument does not bring any of us anything."

Söder demands 2G in Germany - and vaccination for certain professional groups

Bavaria's Prime Minister called for tightened measures in the fight against Corona.

“What we need is 2G nationwide in Germany,” he said.

In addition, there is a need, among other things, a vaccination for certain professional groups, contact restrictions for unvaccinated and more mask requirement in class and in public transport.

The FFP2 mask must be compulsory there, since controls of a 3G rule are difficult.

The corona situation in Bavaria is coming to a head.

Health care in Bamberg is threatened with collapse.

The district office sounds the alarm.

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