“Must do something”: Söder announces hotspot lockdown for EVERYONE and massive restrictions for those who have not been vaccinated

The corona situation in Bavaria remains tense, clinics are preparing triage.

Prime Minister Söder sharpened significantly.

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• In Bavaria, the rules are drastically tightened due to the high corona numbers

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“Must do something”: Söder announces hotspot lockdown for EVERYONE and massive restrictions for those who have not been vaccinated

Update from November 19, 2 p.m

.: The state government around Prime Minister Markus Söder is reacting to the corona pandemic with drastic steps.

Bars and discos have to close, Christmas markets are canceled, cultural and sporting events are only held on a smaller scale and in hotspots it gets even stricter, like the

already learned in advance.

"We have to act, we have to do something," said Söder at the press conference on Friday.

The state parliament should vote on the new measures on Tuesday.

However, the new package is not to be finally decided in the cabinet until Tuesday and then discussed in the state parliament - this is necessary in the case of such cuts, said Söder.

A majority by the CSU and Free Voters is considered certain there.

All measures should then come into effect on Wednesday night.

Söder announces Corona rules for Bavaria: Clubs and bars have to close - no Christmas markets

All clubs, discos and bars should close for the next three weeks and there should be no Christmas markets this year either.

The CSU boss said on Friday after his coalition consulted in Munich.

Schools and daycare centers should remain open.

Cultural and sporting events are only allowed to take place on a much smaller scale: with a maximum capacity of 25 percent of spectators.

In addition, the 2G-plus rule applies there - access also for vaccinated and convalescent people only with a test.

Söder announces strict corona rules for hotspots

In corona hotspots with a seven-day incidence of more than 1000 (currently eight districts), the measures will be even stricter: public life is to be shut down in large areas.

Gastronomy, sports and cultural facilities have to close, events are prohibited, as Söder announced.

Schools and daycare centers should also remain open there.

“De facto lockdown” for unvaccinated people - Söder announces contact restrictions

Bavaria is also introducing contact restrictions for unvaccinated people.

A maximum of five people from two households are allowed to meet.

Children under the age of 12, as well as those who have been vaccinated, are not included.

At the same time, Söder indicated that he was expecting a mandatory vaccination in the medium term.

Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) once again appealed to people in the Free State to get vaccinated and voluntarily reduce their contacts.

The health system is threatened with collapse.

Take a look at the Söder press conference:

Söder's Corona press conference for reading

1:38 p.m.:

Klaus Holetschek speaks. The health minister is happy about the new decisions. He spoke a lot with nurses and doctors, the situation was dramatic. The new infections that you now have every day will come to the hospitals in two weeks. You have to break the wave with all your might. "I hope that the measures we took today will be enough," said Holetschek. If things continue like this, "our health system is on the verge of collapse", he will become clear. Everyone can voluntarily contribute by avoiding contact and showing consideration.

When you hear the descriptions that someone cannot get a transplant because the bed is needed, it is "a condition that is unbelievable", Bavaria's Minister of Health becomes clear.

Holetschek does not understand that there are reports of parties with 1000 people at the same time.

That is bodily harm.

The minister becomes visibly emotional with the descriptions.

Söder-Minister becomes clear: "There is a disaster, there is an epidemic situation"

1:26 p.m.:

Minister of Education Michael Piazolo speaks to Söder.

You have to react quickly, which is why after the Corona summit yesterday, they sat down on Friday immediately.

“There is a disaster, there is an epidemic situation,” said Piazolo.

Tests are being stepped up, said Piazolo.

On Monday there should be the opportunity for self-tests, as the pool test only brings results in the evening or on Tuesday.

The sport inside will be done with a mask, outside without.

You won't let anyone down, says Piazolo.

The aid programs and bridging aid are important for this.

Talk to the showmen and innkeepers.

He appeals to all citizens to obey the rules.

It is important to reduce contacts.

Söder appeal to Bavaria: vaccinate "as much as possible"

1:25 p.m .:

"We ask everyone to take part," said Söder.

A clear priority has also been set for children.

But you should also ask all parents to have their children vaccinated if the recommendation is there.

Then "must be vaccinated as much as possible."

Söder hopes that a vaccination will be compulsory and warns: "It is a life-threatening undertaking not to vaccinate"

1:20 p.m.:

Nobody should be turned away when vaccinated.

All doctors should be involved.

The company doctors are to be more closely involved again.

It is hoped that “the federal government will introduce compulsory vaccinations”, especially for certain professions.

We have to face this debate.

"It is a life-threatening undertaking not to vaccinate", warns Söder.

Nobody has to worry about booster vaccinations.

Booster vaccinations are also quite normal for other vaccinations.

1:15 p.m .:

At hotspots with an incidence of over 1000, “everything has to be closed”, gastro, hotel, sport, culture, hairdresser.

Eight districts in Bavaria are currently affected.

Exceptions: schools and daycare centers (with mask), retail (square meters will be increased to 20 square meters per customer) and old people's and nursing homes.

An absolute ban on entry is not justified there.

Söder announces contact restrictions for unvaccinated people

1:10 p.m.:

The epidemic situation will be determined. Second, there are contact restrictions for those who have not been vaccinated. “A de facto lockdown for the unvaccinated,” says Söder: A maximum of five people from two households are allowed to meet, not including children under 12. 2G and 2Gplus will be tightened. 2G continues to apply where it previously applied. There are also services close to the body such as hairdressers. Trading remains excluded from 2G. There is a curfew at 10 p.m. in the catering trade. You can find an overview of the measures here.

2G plus means: recovered or vaccinated with mask + rapid test.

Upper limit of 25 percent for the occupancy of events (culture, theater, sporting events, Bundesliga, trade fairs).

There will be massive controls for 2G and 2G plus.

Discos, clubs, night restaurants and taverns (bars) will be closed.

In addition: All annual markets and Christmas markets are canceled.

It was hoped that the organizers would have the insight themselves, so Söder.

One is also sorry for the showmen, there should be bridging aid.

Söder's Corona press conference: "We have to act, we have to do something"

13:05:

"We have to act, we have to do something," said Söder.

Everyone should make a contribution for those who do not show solidarity.

That also leads to divisions.

"The legal situation has been clear since yesterday," the Free State of Bavaria also agreed because there have been massive improvements - even if one does not understand everything, for example with the end of the epidemic situation.

"Everything we are going to introduce now goes on until December 15th," said Söder.

The “Bayern Corona Package” that is being presented today is not a pleasure.

A step-by-step concept has been developed.

You don't close everything, but you don't let everything go either.

Söder: "The corona drama continues into the next round"

1 p.m .:

The press conference begins.

Prime Minister Markus Söder has the floor.

"The corona drama continues into the next round." Unfortunately, the situation is overwhelming and is getting worse and worse.

Unvaccinated people in particular are affected; being unvaccinated is a risk, according to Söder.

Historically, the vaccination rate is lower in the south, and this is not only the case with Corona.

Where the corona vaccination rate is low, the incidence is high - for example Rottal-Inn, where the vaccination rate is 54 percent, according to Söder.

In addition to the low vaccination rates, a lack of solidarity is also a reason for the high numbers.

Update from November 19, 12.30 p.m.:

The incidence in Bavaria is 625.3 today, Friday (previous day: 609.5).

The Lower Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn is at the top nationwide with 1,436.6.

The value is also increasing significantly in Munich.

On Friday, the RKI reported an incidence of 754.0 for the state capital.

The day before it was 694.8.

According to

a report by the

,

the Munich Clinic is preparing

for the triage.

That's what CEO Axel Fischer said.

So that you can “act legally and ethically right” if you have to.

But at the moment “we are not yet using triage”, continues Fischer.

Söder press conference on Friday - live stream and ticker

Update from November 19, 12 noon:

The press conference with Markus Söder begins in an hour.

Health Minister Klaus Holetschek and Education Minister Michael Piazolo are also there.

You can follow the press conference at 1 p.m. here in the live stream (in the video above) and in the ticker.

Meanwhile, the Marburg Association of Physicians in Bavaria is calling for mandatory vaccinations - at least for doctors, nurses, teachers and educators.

Such an obligation must primarily apply to medical staff - "and in the end - if you ask me - for the entire population," said state chairman Andreas Botzlar on Friday in Munich.

"Anyone who has not yet understood will not be reached by appeals and explanations," he said.

We have now arrived at a time "where we cannot avoid compulsory vaccination".

The situation is serious - "more serious than it was a year ago," he emphasized. Doctors and nurses in hospitals are increasingly reaching their limits. "The morale in the troops is falling." The most important reason for this is a lack of staff: "The beds we have cannot be operated due to a lack of staff." Botzlar therefore suggested mobilizing forces from the Bundeswehr.

Botzlar criticized politicians' reactions that were too slow. With third-party vaccinations, the so-called boosters, Germany could and should have been much faster.

Update from November 19, 10:42 a.m.:

According to the hospital

situation in Bavarian hospitals in the fourth corona wave is more critical than ever before in the pandemic. So far, intensive care patients could still be moved within Bavaria if there were no beds available on site - but that would only be possible for "a few days", warned Roland Engehausen, managing director of the Bayerische Krankenhausgesellschaft in the

.

“So far we have tried to relocate within Bavaria, for example from Swabia over a hundred kilometers to Lower Franconia.

But that might work for a few more days, ”says Engehausen.

Without tough countermeasures, the number of corona intensive care patients in Bavaria would increase by around 30 percent per week - "so that we will soon no longer have a chance for transfers within the Free State".

Corona situation "as dramatic as it has never been in Bavaria during the entire pandemic period"

Relocating patients to clinics outside Bavaria is also difficult: "The route to Baden-Württemberg is actually already closed because the clinics there are getting closer to the Bavarian situation," said Engehausen.

“We don't know whether we'll be able to bring someone to Hessen in a few weeks.

You don't need to drive to Thuringia and Saxony, and in the south of Austria the situation is no better than here. ”

The current situation is“ as dramatic as it has never been in Bavaria during the entire pandemic, ”said Engehausen the newspaper.

"It surpasses the worst phase so far between Christmas and New Year last year."

Söder has "breakwater" plans for Bavaria - his minister "doesn't want to rule anything out at the moment"

Update from November 19, 9:37 a.m.:

Which corona rules come in Bavaria? At 1 p.m. Markus Söder appears in front of the press together with Minister of Education Michael Piazolo and Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (see first report). The latter does not preclude comprehensive lockdown measures in Bavaria in advance. “At the moment I don't want to rule out anything at all when it comes to how we are now discussing measures. We have a need for action, ”said Holetschek to

on Friday. "I believe that a lockdown of the enforceability is not legally possible even for vaccinated people," he said. The new infections must now be broken resolutely and in a closed manner, so that the hospitals do not have to do more in two weeks than they do now.

Bavaria never closed the vaccination centers, emphasized the CSU politician.

Therefore, many people in the Free State could now be vaccinated at the same time.

“The capacities have increased.

I assume that every day we offer more vaccination capacity and become even faster. "

After the Corona summit: Söder has "breakwater" plans for Bavaria - "fundamental" adjustments are in the making

First report from November 19, 6.42 a.m .:

Munich - In view of the exploding

new infections in Bavaria, the black-orange coalition wants to resolve a noticeable tightening of the corona rules on Friday (November 19).

Markus Söder (CSU) had already announced drastic cuts, especially for unvaccinated people in the Free State on Thursday evening following the Prime Minister's Conference - there should be nothing less than a “de facto lockdown for unvaccinated people”.

It therefore needs a “breakwater”, explained Söder.

The rate of spread must be slowed down.

Corona: Söder wants to tighten the rules for Bavaria

In doing so, he very explicitly emphasized the instrument of contact restrictions.

In addition, it is about personnel upper limits in certain areas "and also the cancellation" of events.

He did not want to be more specific before consulting the coalition partner.

In an ARD talk, however, Söder had already recommended that all Christmas markets in the Free State be canceled.

The Free State will exhaust all legal possibilities - both according to the previous and the new legal situation, i.e. on the basis of the old and the newly drafted Infection Protection Act, said Söder.

“The principle is clear: tighten, and fundamentally.

Reduce contacts, both at events and in other areas, ”he explained.

"We do what we have to do."

Corona special way in Bavaria: Söder wants to "check what is possible"

According to the new version of the Federal Infection Protection Act, the state parliaments should be able to decide on restrictions in the leisure, cultural or sports sectors.

Exit restrictions, general business or school closings and travel bans should then be excluded.

If countries still order such measures now, however, they could remain in force until December 15.

“We will examine what is possible under the new law.

We will consider what, according to the old law, especially until December 15th.

is possible, ”said Bavaria's Prime Minister for the record.

Everything that is decided on Friday has to be used deliberately for the next three weeks to reduce the numbers and relieve the health system.

Söder statement live: This is how the Corona adjustments will be in Bavaria

Lockdown measures also for vaccinated people - which would still be possible for a certain transitional period under the old legal situation - Söder believes, however, to be legally complicated, in his own words.

"A complete restriction, for example for vaccinated people, would hardly be imaginable under the current circumstances and would be constitutional."

Söder wants to present all the results of the consultations at a press conference in Munich.

We report from 1 p.m. in the live ticker. 

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