A medical face mask and an FFP-2 mask lie on the ground at a metro station near Theresienwiese in Munich. Image: dpa
A connection to Oktoberfest can hardly be proven at the moment, but it is obvious: there was also a significant increase in incidences at other folk festivals about a week and a half after it started.
A week and a half after the start of Oktoberfest, the crown numbers in Munich are increasing faster and faster. Weekly, the incidence increased by nearly 77% to 424.9, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute Tuesday morning (3:08 am).
This is significantly more than the 43.1% increase in Bavaria or the 29.4% increase in Germany. The incidence is the number of new corona infections recorded per 100,000 people in seven days.
Because health officials report virtually no new cases to the RKI on weekends, which the RKI can include in the morning-after numbers, Tuesday is often the first day of the week when there are significant increases in incidences.
The connection to Oktoberfest is obvious
A connection between the rise and Oktoberfest can hardly be proven at the moment, but it is obvious: there was also a significant increase in incidences at other folk festivals about a week and a half after it started. Often these were increased to a good week. Experts also predicted a wave of Wiesn in the run-up to Oktoberfest.
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In the meantime, however, the incidence numbers have lost some of their meaning. Experts have assumed for some time that there will be a large number of corona cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people get a PCR test. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, recording delays and transmission issues can lead to distortion of individual daily values.