Distorted numbers, a crisis in the crisis team and a Lord Mayor who admits to acting too late: This is how Munich slipped into the second Corona winter. Has the city felt safe for too long?
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Heiner Effern and Anna Hoben
“We are two months earlier than a year ago. That is an alarm signal for us,” said the emergency doctor Viktoria Bogner-Flatz from the LMU-Klinikum on September 15, 2021. Several hospitals had advised her that “actually.” the red light is already on, “said health officer Beatrix Zurek on September 23rd. Oliver Abbushi, spokesman for the Munich family doctors, even drew a drastic picture before the summer vacation: “Now let’s watch the incidence skyrocket and nothing happens.”