3 Bavaria regions over 2000 incidence: Söder is pushing Lauterbach to the old strategy - and has to take it

Created: 01/29/2022, 09:03

By: Katarina Amtmann

Markus Söder, CSU chairman and Prime Minister of Bavaria, has a demand for the traffic light.

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The corona numbers continue to rise, three regions in Bavaria are now over 2000. Meanwhile, Markus Söder is making a clear demand for the traffic light.

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• Markus Söder has a clear Corona demand on the federal government and is reaping objections.

• The incidence keeps increasing.

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Munich – Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) is demanding new and reliable standards from the federal government for assessing the corona situation.

Since the seven-day incidence in the current omicron wave, which has been the focus so far, is also losing its warning effect due to a lack of test options, "we need a new evaluation system that should be based on the occupancy of the hospital beds," said the CSU boss the

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"This is the only way we can find out whether the health system will remain stable - or whether there is a risk of overloading it." Söder added: "The federal government is required to get a functioning and meaningful hospital traffic light on the way."

Bavaria: Söder expresses corona demands to the traffic light government

Bavaria's Prime Minister also said that this traffic light had to take into account the corona share in the occupancy of the hospitals and a possible overload of the nursing staff.

It is important: “We need to know how many people come to the hospital solely because of Corona – and how many only with Corona.” Earlier on Friday, the President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, explained that in In this pandemic phase, the pure number of cases is no longer decisive.

"We now have to look primarily at the burden of the disease and the severity of the disease," he said.

Specifically, the RKI has recently published estimates of people infected with Covid 19 symptoms of various degrees of severity.

For example, there are estimates of cases below the threshold for hospital admissions, such as the frequency of doctor visits.

Söder expresses a Corona demand for the traffic light - and reaps objections

However, Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) spoke out against the nationwide warning system demanded by Söder.

He said that the Hanseatic city had "always based its decisions on the specific regional pandemic situation, which results from numerous different factors as an overall picture".

The interaction of the factors is complex, so that decisions cannot be derived schematically from nationally uniform threshold values.

Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) also contradicted the CSU leader.

"The Corona policy should strive for reliability and not unsettle the citizens with changing standards." Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) currently called it the most important thing to secure general services of general interest.

This includes the protection of critical infrastructure.

Corona regional: The update for Bavaria

Corona numbers in Bavaria are increasing drastically - three regions with an incidence of over 2000

The situation in Bavaria remains tense: the incidence rose to 1301.2 on Saturday (previous day: 1218).

• County of Starnberg: 2601.6

• Dachau district: 2390.5

• City of Rosenheim: 2072.6

In Munich, too, the incidence is still high.

The Robert Koch Institute reported a value of 1726.3 for the state capital.