Incidence remains at 77.5
Wednesday, September 8th, 7.13 a.m .: The incidence value in Bavaria remains constant at 77.5. According to the Robert Koch Institute, it was 77.4 on Monday. The hospital traffic light, which is now more relevant in the Free State and shows the burden of Covid patients in the clinics, remains on green. The city of Rosenheim has slipped back over the 200 mark and is now at 206.0. The city of Augsburg has the second highest value in Bavaria with 162.6. 19 of the 96 districts and independent cities now have a value over 100. The Tirschenreuth district reports the lowest value with 8.4. The incidence in the state capital Munich is 51.8.
16 to 19-year-olds in Bavaria are most often infected with corona
Tuesday, September 7th, 6.30 p.m .: Young people between the ages of 16 and 19 are currently most likely to be infected with the coronavirus in Bavaria. In the age group, the incidence is currently 193, said State Chancellor Florian Herrmann (CSU) on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Munich. For 20 to 34 year olds, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants is 132 and for 12 to 15 year olds it is 131.
The nationwide seven-day incidence in the Free State continues to rise and is currently 77.5. “We still have a continuous increase in the number of new infections. However, more restrained than it was two or three weeks ago,” said Herrmann. According to the Robert Koch Institute – as of Tuesday – the municipalities are the city and the district of Rosenheim with incidences of 191.9 and 159.3 respectively in terms of new infections. The fewest per 100,000 inhabitants are in the district of Bayreuth (3.9) and in the district of Tirschenreuth (7.0).
However, the incidence values are now less relevant for political measures in the fight against the pandemic. “Since our new regulation, we have of course been focusing more on the hospitalization figures,” said Herrmann. With an occupancy of 183 beds, these are still in the green area.
The traffic light would turn yellow if more than 1200 corona patients had to be admitted to Bavarian clinics within seven days. The traffic light would switch to red if more than 600 corona patients were in intensive care units in Bavaria.
Quarantine rules in daycare centers relaxed
Tuesday, September 7th, 12:30 p.m .: In Bavaria, only one daycare center is currently completely closed due to the corona pandemic. “We currently have 45 facilities in 10,200 day-care centers in Bavaria that are affected by closure. Only one is completely closed, all the others only have groups that have been quarantined,” said Family Minister Carolina Trautner (CSU) on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Munich.
Trautner emphasized that the quarantine rules would be relaxed like in schools. Here, too, an entire group should no longer be quarantined if a person has tested positive. The health authorities would then first carry out an individual risk assessment, which took into account factors such as the ventilation situation, the rooms and the care concept. In addition, it will be checked whether close contact persons could be defined. After the fifth day, the suspected cases could then be freed again, said Trautner. Employees who are fully vaccinated do not have to be quarantined. Children who are not to be tested would have to remain in quarantine for 14 days.
Air filter funding applied for only for 23,000 classes
Tuesday, September 7th, 12:18 p.m .: At the start of school, numerous classrooms in Bavaria will probably not be equipped with air filters. How many there are is unclear, but by the end of August, according to a spokesman, the Bavarian Ministry of Culture had only applied for funding for around 23,000 classrooms – out of a total of around 75,000. However, there are also schools that would have procured the air filters without funding , emphasized a ministry spokesman. The number of classes actually equipped with a filter should therefore be higher. How high, he doesn’t know.
“The requested amount increases daily, however,” said the spokesman also. According to Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), only two weeks before the start of the school year, only ten percent of the funds from the latest funding program launched in the summer had been called up. The Ministry of Education emphasized, however, that previously disbursed funds had already been called up to 100 percent.
“That is simply not enough for us. An awful lot of time was wasted here,” said the deputy chairman of the Bavarian Parents’ Association, Henrike Paede, about the figures from the ministry. “Many school authorities do not want to invest because they did not know whether more face-to-face classes could really take place with the appropriate equipment. Unfortunately, politicians never made an announcement about this.” This situation is also intolerable for the President of the Bavarian Teachers’ Association (BLLV), Simone Fleischmann. Because the schools that could afford to buy air filters without funding are the ones that are financially well-funded. “And not those from a more difficult socio-economic environment in which the students are particularly dependent on face-to-face teaching.”
The State Parents’ Association of Bayerischer Realschulen demanded “an air purification device and Plexiglas partitions in every classroom by the end of 2021 at the latest” and wrote a “fire letter” to Minister of Education Michael Piazolo. “Our children are the ones who suffer, because material expenditure providers shy away from costs, the expenditure of which should ensure the health of our children and ensure the maintenance of the Bavarian educational standard,” it says.
Incidence almost constant
Tuesday, September 7th, 7.13 a.m .: The incidence value in Bavaria rose to 77.5 on Tuesday. According to the Robert Koch Institute, it was 77.4 on Monday. The hospital traffic light, which is now more relevant in the Free State and shows the burden of Covid patients in the clinics, remains on green. According to the information, there are 1032 new cases in the Free State.
The city of Rosenheim has slipped below the 200 mark and is now at 191.9. The district of Rosenheim has a significantly higher value than in the past few days at 159.3. 19 of the 96 districts and independent cities now have a value over 100. The district of Bayreuth reports the lowest value with 3.9. The incidence in the state capital Munich is 56.4.
Söder defends relaxed quarantine rules in Bavaria’s schools
Monday, September 6th, 3:27 p.m .: Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) defends the easing of the quarantine rules in schools in Bavaria in the case of proven corona infections. “It is wrong to quarantine entire classes for 14 days, a maximum of five, a maximum of the environment,” said the CSU boss on Monday in his speech at the political morning pint at the Gillamoos festival in Abensberg, Lower Bavaria. With certain measures, the quarantine could even be omitted entirely, for example if there were air purifiers in the class concerned and all students were tested daily for a week. “I don’t want a lockdown for business and society Back door. Dear friends, now we have to make an effort, “said Söder. Bavaria has “set a standard” with its latest Corona regulation.
Söder again appealed to a high willingness to vaccinate and referred to the advantages for those who have been vaccinated – both for their own health protection and for the fight against the pandemic. For example, vaccinated students would no longer have to be tested. “We don’t want a compulsory vaccination, I say that explicitly. Not through the back door, through the front door or through the revolving door. It doesn’t matter.” But if you don’t want to be vaccinated, you have to make the decision.
Incidence increases at the beginning of the week
Monday, September 6th, 7.15 a.m .: The incidence value in Bavaria has risen to 77.4. According to the Robert Koch Institute on Monday, there are 918 new cases in the Free State. The city of Rosenheim is still above the 200 mark and has a seven-day incidence of 206.0. This is followed by the cities of Augsburg (162.9) and Kaufbeuren (161.2). The district of Bayreuth reports the lowest value with 7.7. The state capital Munich showed a value of 62.4 on Friday. The corona traffic light, which shows the burden of Covid patients in Bavarian hospitals, is green.
Hospital traffic light green, incidence high
Sunday, September 5th, 8.15 a.m .: The seven-day incidence in Bavaria continues to rise steadily: the Robert Koch Institute reports 75.9 on Sunday. The value is still an indicator of how much infections with the coronavirus are spreading, it no longer has an impact on measures and thus the everyday life of most people. The hospital traffic light in Bavaria has been deciding on this since Friday; it indicates how bed occupancy is going in clinics – and the situation there is comparatively relaxed, the traffic light is green. The current daily value can be found on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL).
For a few days now, a distinction has also been made in the incidence value – between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Accordingly, the value for the unvaccinated part of the population is currently 158.75, for people with a full corona vaccination, however, only 11.27. What does that mean? That infection with the virus can still occur despite vaccination – but much less often. And, this in turn is noticeable at the hospital traffic light, it is much less often that completely vaccinated people with corona infection end up in the hospital.
Vaccinated students no longer need to be tested for class
Friday, September 3, 5:40 p.m .: Vaccinated children and adolescents no longer have to take the corona test at school. “Those who are fully vaccinated no longer have to be tested in school and, as a rule, no longer have to be in quarantine if they are in close contact with infected classmates or friends,” said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) on Friday at a press conference with doctors’ representatives in Munich .
He called on everyone over the age of twelve to be vaccinated before the end of the vacation. “There is still enough time to start the first week of school with the first vaccination. This can also reduce the risk of infection for classmates.”
The number of infections among children is currently increasing, according to Holetschek. According to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL), the incidences in the age group of 12 to 15 year olds were around 130 at the end of August and around 192 in the age group of 16 to 19 year olds. Currently 29.8 in Bavaria Percent of 12 to 17 year olds first vaccinated and 21.9 percent second vaccinated.
Markus Beier, the state chairman of the Bavarian General Practitioner Association, said: “Unfortunately, the number of infections and hospital admissions for unvaccinated and young people are increasing again significantly. Children and adolescents can also best be protected by a vaccination.”
Dominik Ewald, state chairman of the professional association of paediatricians, emphasized that children are less likely to get Corona and that they rarely come to the hospital. “All the data indicate that the approved vaccines are also safe for adolescents.”