Rider announcement: Wiesn without corona restrictions or not at all - Lauterbach skeptical
Created: 2022-06-02 08:21
By: Katarina Amtmann
The Oktoberfest should take place without conditions.
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The Wiesn will take place in 2022 without Corona requirements or not at all.
That said Mayor Dieter Reiter.
Karl Lauterbach thinks such statements are difficult.
Munich – According to the city’s mayor, this year’s Oktoberfest will only take place without any restrictions to protect against the corona virus – or not at all.
Munich Wiesn 2022 without access restrictions: Riders with a clear Oktoberfest announcement
Access restrictions "could not be pulled out of a hat four weeks in advance," said Dieter Reiter (SPD) on Wednesday evening (June 1) to
Bayerischer Rundfunk
.
Neither the necessary security personnel nor the technology for checking digital vaccination certificates could be obtained at such short notice.
Reiter made a similar statement in April when he announced that the famous folk festival would take place again this year after a two-year Corona break.
Oktoberfest 2022: Lauterbach considers the Oktoberfest commitment to be problematic
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Oktoberfest 2022 without access restrictions?
Lauterbach skeptical
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD), on the other hand, considers such statements to be difficult in view of the possible development of new variants of the corona virus.
The Oktoberfest is scheduled to begin on September 17th.
(came/dpa)
