Corona in Bavaria: Court overturns Söders 2G rule in other shops

Created: 01/02/2022, 09:18 AM

From: Katarina Amtmann

Markus Söder calls for an adjustment to the quarantine rule.

Meanwhile, a Bavarian court overturns the 2G rule in certain stores.

The news ticker for Bavaria.

• According to a decision by the Bavarian Administrative Court, clothing stores do not fall under the 2G rule (see update from December 29th, 5:17 p.m.).

• Markus Söder calls for an adjustment to the quarantine rule (see update from December 28, 4:22 p.m.).

• (By the way: Our Bavaria newsletter informs you about all the important stories from the Free State. Register here.)

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Update from December 29th, 5.45 p.m.:

An announced corona demo is currently occupying the police in Munich.

You want to "flood" the city center, threatened members of a lateral thinker chat group for the Corona protest on Wednesday evening.

The city had banned the demonstration with 5,000 participants and moved it to Theresienwiese.

Nevertheless, the police are assuming gatherings in the city, as they did last Wednesday.

The officials are prepared for an unannounced "walk" so that violent clashes do not occur again.

You can find all the news about the situation in Munich in our ticker.

Corona in Bavaria: Court overturns Söders 2G rule in other shops

Update from December 29th, 5:10 pm:

Clothing stores in Bavaria, like bookstores or flower shops, serve to "cover daily needs" and are therefore not subject to the 2G rule. The Bavarian Administrative Court decided on Wednesday. The decision is final. At the beginning of December, the state government decreed that only those who had been vaccinated and those who had recovered had access to the Bavarian retail trade. Shops "to cover daily needs" are excluded.

Clothing stores are not listed as an exception in the regulation.

According to the judgment of the judges, however, they too are exempted from the 2G rule, "because their importance for the general public does not take second place to that of shoes, books, cut flowers or garden tools and the need for clothing can arise on a daily basis".

An owner of a clothes shop in Regensburg had made an urgent application.

According to a court order, your shop serves to cover “daily needs”.

Before Christmas, the judges had already made it clear that toy shops were also exempt from the 2G rule. 

Corona incidence in Free State is on the decline - but another number causes headaches

Update from December 29, 6.51 a.m.:

The incidence in Bavaria has fallen again and significantly. According to the RKI, it was 172.6 on Wednesday morning. The day before it was 188.6. The Robert Koch Institute points out, however, that "less test and reporting activity can be expected over the holidays, so that the data shown in the dashboard and management report could only provide an incomplete picture of the epidemiological situation in Germany."

The district of Unterallgäu has the highest incidence in the Free State (337.3), the lowest in the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate (87).

The state capital of Munich is 179.3, just above the Bavarian average.

Due to the more than 700 Covid patients who currently need intensive medical care in the Free State (718, as of December 28), the hospital traffic light in Bavaria is still red, while the hospitalization rate of 393 is now in the green area.

Corona: Bavaria leads the way in debt

Meanwhile, the policy of measures is also noticeable in the Bavarian state budget. As the Ministry of Finance in Munich announced at the request of the German Press Agency (dpa), a total of around 10.1 billion euros in new loans were taken out in 2020 and 2021. This is the highest level of new debt in a German state due to the Corona crisis.

Update from December 28, 4:18 p.m .:

Markus Söder calls for an adjustment to the current quarantine rules. “Of course we have to review the current quarantine rules. With a rapidly growing epidemic, we cannot simply paralyze the whole country from one day to the next, ”he told

in an interview. Söder therefore called on the traffic light government to act. At the moment, the regulation states that all people who are infected with Omikron or who are considered to be contact persons must be in isolation for 14 days. There is no possibility of self-testing.

Update from December 28, 6:15 a.m.:

The incidence in Bavaria has fallen slightly again and is 188.5 on Tuesday (previous day: 190.4).

The Robert Koch Institute points out, however, that "less test and reporting activity can be expected over the holidays, so that the data shown in the dashboard and management report could only provide an incomplete picture of the epidemiological situation in Germany."

The district of Dillingen an der Donau has the highest incidence in the Free State (360.2), the lowest in the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate (96.4).

Corona: Söder-Minister admits mistakes

Update from December 27, 11:37 a.m.:

Bavaria's Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek has

Health Ministers had errors in corona communication. "We should have been better in external communication," he told the

(Monday edition). “For example, when Stiko changed its recommendations for the Astrazeneca vaccine several times. Once it said something like: Astra only over 65 years, then again only under 65 years. Once like this, then again like that. That didn't always seem comprehensible, ”admitted the CSU politician.

Overall, however, he is satisfied with the Corona policy: "I think if we look back at this time from the time, we can say that we have acted well on the whole," said Holetschek, who held his office as Chairman of the Health Ministers' Conference on January 1, hands over to his colleague Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) from Saxony-Anhalt.

His work as health minister in the Corona crisis also demands a lot from him personally: "During the week I sleep on a folding couch in an office near the Bavarian state parliament," said Holetschek, who lives in Memmingen, of the

“I get up early, usually on my feet from five o'clock and I often come out late in the evening.

So it's not worth going to Memmingen during the week. "

Corona incidence drops to 190.4 in Bavaria

Update from December 27, 10 a.m.:

The Corona incidence in Bavaria is 190.4 on Monday (see first report).

The district of Dillingen has the highest value (350.9), followed by the district of Unterallgäu with 341.4 and the city of Schweinfurt, which made headlines on Sunday evening with violent corona protests, with 330.1.

The district of Main-Spessart (112.7), the city of Landshut (120.4) and the district of Wunsiedel (120.9) had the lowest incidences.

Söder-Minister shares good news from Corona: "But we're not resting on that"

First report from December 27, 7:26 a.m .:

Munich - The seven-day incidence in Bavaria has continued to decrease, as expected.

On Monday it was 190.4, the day before a value of 192.7 was reported.

Before the holidays, the incidence in Bavaria was just under 250.

However, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) points out that “less test and reporting activity can be expected over the holidays, so that the data shown in the dashboard and management report could only provide an incomplete picture of the epidemiological situation in Germany . "

Corona vaccinations are making headway in Bavaria: "But we're not resting on that"

The vaccinations against Corona seem to be going well at the moment, since November 18th, 4,896,882 vaccinations have been administered in Bavaria (as of December 24th).

On Boxing Day, Bavaria's health minister was satisfied with it: “We in Bavaria have already made our contribution to the nationwide goal of 30 million vaccinations between November 18th and the end of the year.

Already on December 23, before Christmas, we had more than met our target of around 4.7 million vaccinations with around 4.9 million vaccinations in this period, based on the population, ”said Klaus Holetschek (CSU) in a press release from the Ministry of Health quoted.

“But we're not resting on that.

The vaccinations are continuing at a rapid pace - vaccinations were also carried out on the Christmas holidays. "

• 71.4 percent first vaccinations

• 69.4 percent second vaccinations

• 34.5 percent booster vaccinations (as of December 24th)

Booster vaccinations against Corona: "Give yourself a jolt"

Holetschek added: “Especially when I look at the prognoses for the worrying SARS-CoV-2 virus variant Omikron, I appeal once again to all those who come into question: Let yourself be boosted, it is the order of the day!

Experts agree that a booster vaccination is very protective.

We must do everything we can to ensure that the gloomy forecasts for the spread do not come true - everyone can do their part.

So I ask all those who are still hesitant: Give yourself a jolt! "

Finally, the minister is quoted by CSU boss Markus Söder in the press release as follows: “It is now also possible to vaccinate children between the ages of five and eleven.

The vast majority of Bavarians can now be vaccinated and I can only encourage anyone who decides to vaccinate themselves or their child today!

Every vaccination counts! "

An unannounced corona demo took place in Lower Franconia on Sunday.

Because participants behaved aggressively, the police had to intervene.