Corona in Bavaria: Numbers are now rising steeply - Söder shoots at traffic lights and earns ridicule

Created: 01/05/2022, 10:02 AM

From: Tanja Kipke

The incidence in the Free State has risen slightly again.

More and more Omicron cases are being detected.

Markus Söder commented on the MPK on Friday.

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• Omikron cases have more than doubled in Bavaria within a few days

  (update from January 4, 12:32 p.m.).

• Markus Söder receives criticism for an Instagram post on the corona situation (see update from January 4, 6:54 p.m.).

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Update from January 5, 6:46 a.m.:

In Bavaria the seven-day incidence has risen again and has exceeded the value of 200 again. As the RKI reports in its dashboard with data from early Wednesday morning, the incidence is now at 213. The day before it was 199.9.

The town with the highest incidence remains Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia with 360.1, closely followed by the Ostallgäu district with 351.6. In the state capital Munich, the Wer on Wednesday is 238.2. In view of the now rapidly increasing incidences and due to the rapid spread of the contagious Omikron variant of the coronavirus, the health ministers of the federal states want to advise together with Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on a shortened quarantine rule in order to maintain the critical infrastructure, for example in the area of ​​care could.

Update from January 4, 6:54 p.m.:

Markus Söder spoke on Tuesday evening on Instagram about the corona pandemic. On the picture of himself with a mask is the text: “With Corona: Be careful, but not hysteria.” In the post, the CSU boss also referred to the next discussions on Friday: “Corona is a burden of our time. Nobody should hope for political capital from it. The traffic light is also just noticing that. That is why neither ideological liberality nor excessive severity helps. We need well-founded reason. Everything else unsettles people. "

The reactions to this post are not long in coming: "Now all of a sudden," someone comments smugly.

"Changes his mind more often than I change my football club," read another comment.

“That's just what the right person says,” says another person.

And another user sums up with amusement: "Great, not a single positive comment here."

Corona: Omikron cases are increasing rapidly in Bavaria - number of cases doubled within a few days

Update from January 4, 12:29 p.m.:

The number of corona infections reported in Bavaria with the particularly contagious omicron variant of the pathogen has more than doubled within a few days. Since the first occurrence at the end of November, the Bavarian health authorities have reported a total of 7537 Omikron cases to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), as the Berlin federal authority reported in its daily overview on Tuesday.

However, this also includes late registrations.

Before the turn of the year, only 3,163 Omikron cases were registered in the Free State last Thursday.

The number of cases has thus more than doubled.

With the rapid spread of the Omikron variant, the total number of corona cases in Bavaria is also increasing again: The health authorities reported 3,673 new corona infections and 48 new deaths to the RKI within 24 hours.

The incidence rises to 199.9.

Corona quarantine: Aiwanger warns of the risks of shortening the quarantine

Update from January 4th, 10:24 am:

Not only Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) is calling for a change in the quarantine rules due to the burgeoning omicron wave. Ironically, his deputy Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), who is otherwise often at the forefront in the cabinet for easing, warns of possible risks that such a shortening could bring. "It would be counterproductive if we were to send people back to work who are still infectious," the Minister of Economic Affairs told the BR.

Wherever possible, however, the quarantine time can be shortened, the vice-head of the country added. He is relying on the advice of science. It must be precisely demarcated from when it is no longer possible to pass on an infection. Basically, the following currently applies in Germany: If you have close contact with a person who has tested positive for Corona, you should be quarantined at home for ten days. This can be shortened to seven days with a negative rapid antigen test and to five days with a negative PCR test. A distinction must be made between isolation: Those who are infected should be in isolation 14 days after the onset of symptoms - those who have been completely vaccinated for five days if they are then symptom-free and negative PCR-tested.

Update from January 4, 6:12 a.m

.: The current corona trend in the Free State continues: the incidence has risen slightly again.

According to the RKI, the value was 199.9 on Tuesday.

For comparison: the day before it was 191.

At the Prime Minister's Conference this Friday, a decision is to be made about the further course of the pandemic.

The Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) is already making it clear: He is hoping that the meeting will result in uniform nationwide corona rules so that “we don't blindly run into a fifth wave”.

Corona incidence in Bavaria continues to rise - Holetschek calls for nationwide Omikron rule

The heads of government should decide on measures "with which we can put a stop to the Omikron variant nationwide," emphasized Holetschek to the

.

The state government will then examine "which levers we still have to turn in Bavaria and which further measures are important and necessary"

Because of the higher transferability and the insufficient scientific data on Omikron, caution should be exercised.

The burden on the health system is still high.

At Omikron, the Minister of Health considers “a shortening or even exemption from the quarantine for boosted contacts” to be conceivable.

Update from January 3, 2:37 p.m.:

The Bavarian Ministry of Science is again increasing its intensive funding of corona research at Bavarian university hospitals. "Research is a central component in the fight against the corona pandemic", Science Minister Bernd Sibler is quoted in a statement. According to him, the research association FOR-COVID set up by the Ministry of Science in autumn 2020 to research the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease caused by it will receive around 800,000 euros annually from 2022 to 2024.

According to

information, the research network comprises eight projects. Among other things, they deal with the immune response after a corona vaccination or infection, as well as with "points of attack for an antiviral therapy", writes the

. The work of the association should also improve the handling of future pandemics.

First report from January 3, 11

a.m .: Munich - In Bavaria, the seven-day incidence and new Corona * infections have risen again slightly.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported a value of 191 on Monday. The previous day the incidence was 183.3.

3,035 new corona infections and eleven other deaths were reported in the Free State.

The RKI advises that the figures may be incomplete over the holidays.

The number of omicron cases is also increasing.

According to LGL 3163 confirmed cases by the weekend.

Corona incidence in Bavaria is increasing: Schweinfurt continues to be in focus - also because of demos

The town with the highest incidence has been Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia for a few days.

There the value is currently at 363.8.

In Munich comparatively “only” at 205.2.

Schweinfurt recently came into focus not only because of the increasing incidence, but also because of the numerous demonstrations against the Corona measures.

About a week ago, the so-called "walks" in the city center escalated and violent clashes broke out between participants and police officers.

A child was injured in the process, while the criticism of the mother is great.

On Sunday evening (January 2), hundreds of people were again in downtown Schweinfurt to protest against the Corona policy.

The police responded.

First Corona summit 2022: Lauterbach is already announcing resolutions

Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had already requested a shortening of the quarantine rules with regard to the new Omikron variant before Christmas. Now Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has spoken out in favor. He also announced further resolutions that the MPK would like to discuss on Friday (January 7th).

The Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetscheck (CSU), who is also chairman of the Health Ministers' Conference, had already advocated last week that the Prime Ministers meet with the federal government before January 7th “to re-evaluate the situation”.

Germany is "in a volatile phase of the pandemic - and the virus does not last on holidays," he told the

He also considers it “a big mistake that the federal government let the epidemic emergency run out”. 

Söder Minister with appeal: "We have to learn lessons from the pandemic!"

"We have to learn lessons from the pandemic!" Holetschek is quoted in a statement from the state government on Sunday.

The list of problems to be addressed is long.

“For me, care is the top priority - in all its facets: from professional care in hospitals and long-term care, in facilities and in the outpatient sector to caring relatives for good care, ”says Holetschek.

Another goal is to improve the position of hospitals in terms of personnel and finances.

It is important “that we now implement these points!”