Söder receives the chief of the crisis team and at lunchtime gives a statement on summit rules for Bavaria

Created: 12/22/2021, 12:22 PM

From: Tanja Kipke, Thomas Eldersch

Prime Minister Söder (r.) And Health Minister Holetschek meet with the head of the Corona crisis team, Breuer.

© Peter Kneffel / dpa / dpa-Bildfunk

Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder meets with the head of the Corona crisis team Breuer on Wednesday.

They then visit various institutions in Munich.

The news ticker.

• Prime Minister Söder expects high visitors in Munich on Wednesday

  (see original report)

  .

• The incidence in Bavaria is still on the decline

  (see update from December 22nd, 6.55 a.m.)

  .

• You can read all corona news for Bavaria here in the ticker.

Update from December 22nd, 12:13 p.m.:

Corona crisis chief, Carsten Breuer, visits the Free State on Tuesday (December 22nd) to talk to Prime Minister Markus Söder about the current Corona situation (see first report).

In an interview with

he explained how "extremely important" the week before and after Christmas were with regard to vaccinations.

Many people would have free and thus time to attend a vaccination appointment. “That is why the vaccination offer must be maintained as nationwide as possible.

The vaccination centers remain up. ”He himself will also be on duty at Christmas.

“I will of course be on the crisis team on Christmas Eve.

The situation in the country makes this necessary. "

According to the general, there is no such thing as a “good or bad vaccine”.

Just available.

The new Omikron variant means that you have to react quickly to developments.

Vaccination centers should therefore no longer be dismantled, but only mothballed, if at all, he explained in an interview.

"In the future we want to be able to vaccinate the majority of the population at any time within weeks."

Update from December 22nd, 6.55 a.m.:

In the Free State, the seven-day incidence has fallen again.

According to the RKI, the value on Wednesday morning is 255.6.

For comparison: the day before it was still 276.7.

The Coburg district currently has the highest incidence in Bavaria at 560.2.

In the state capital Munich, the value sinks to 208.2.

First report from December 21:

Munich - The appointments for Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) do not seem to stop shortly before Christmas.

First there was a meeting of the CSU executive committee on Monday, followed by a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, and then the head of the country took part in the prime ministerial conference.

And the topic of Corona * runs like a red thread through the week in Söders.

On Wednesday, December 22nd, the Corona crisis chief, Major General Carsten Breuer, visits the Free State.

Corona in Bavaria: Head of the crisis team Breuer visits Munich

At 1 p.m. Söder, Breuer and the Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) will appear in front of the cameras.

In the orangery of the State Chancellery, they comment on the corona situation in Bavaria.

Then at 2:30 p.m. the chief of the crisis staff visits a Munich clinic.

After the appointment there, the major general will visit a family doctor's practice in Munich * at around 6 p.m.

Before Bavaria, Breuer visited the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony.

Major General Carsten Breuer on his visit to Lower Saxony.

In the background stands Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD).

© Michael Matthey / dpa

On Tuesday it was announced that the State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) will have a new head after a year.

The physician Prof. Christian Weidner takes over from Walter Jonas, who becomes regional president of the Upper Palatinate.

“He is not only an expert on the LGL, but also, as a doctor, an accomplished expert in the subject of risk assessment,” said Bavaria's Minister of Health Holetschek, praising the 50-year-old on Tuesday in Munich.

Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber (Free Voters) sees Weidner as an “extremely competent new head of the authorities”.

Corona in Bavaria: Change at the top of the LGL for the FDP only a "pawn"

The LGL has recently been criticized for calculating the corona incidence * broken down into vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

At its core, it is about the question of whether it is legitimate to add people with an unknown vaccination status to the group of unvaccinated people - even if they now make up a very large part.

Jonas had repeatedly defended his authority's approach from a professional point of view.

The Landtag FDP called Jonas a "pawn sacrifice" on Tuesday.

In government circles, however, it was emphasized that the procedure for filling the two government president posts had been going on for a long time.