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The incidence in Bavaria has decreased slightly. Söder’s cabinet must decide on the future course of rules. All news on ticker.
- Slight decrease in incidence on Monday (see March 28 update, 10:07 am).
- If Prime Minister Söder* declares Bavaria a hotspot as a whole, the FDP state parliament wants to sue (see the March 28 update at 1:54 pm).
- Bavaria* is not fully declared a hotspot. The head of state Söder has already made this clear (see the March 28 update at 2:33 pm).
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Update March 28, 2:33 PM: The headwind seemed to have been very strong. Bavaria is not declared a hotspot. Prime Minister Söder said this on Monday during a meeting at Munich’s Viktualienmarkt. “I am against canceling everything, but we remain cautious. But we also have to try a little bit to live normalcy in the hard times anyway.” It’s important to get “a little joie de vivre” without completely giving up caution. People needed closeness and togetherness. Economy Minister Aiwanger and the FDP in the state parliament had already spoken out against the hotspot option.
Bavaria as a corona hotspot? FDP wants to sue if it comes to this
Update March 28, 1:54 PM: If all of Bavaria is classified as a corona hotspot, the FDP threatens the state government with legal consequences. “The debate over a hotspot across Bavaria lacks substance: a regional authority can only be declared a hotspot if a more dangerous virus variant appears there or if there is a risk of overloading hospital capacity. These conditions are not met with regard to Bavaria,” FDP chief Martin Hagen said on Monday in Munich. High infection numbers alone are not sufficient justification. “If the state parliament decides to declare Bavaria a hotspot , let’s sue.”
Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) has repeatedly criticized the planned end of most corona restrictions and wants to extend the mask requirement by four weeks. FDP leader Hagen calls Holetschek’s criticisms wrong: “The Infection Protection Act applies even if Mr Holetschek doesn’t like it. The time for easing is just right: across the country, the infection rate is decreasing, the number of infections is falling, the R value is now 0.78. The peak of the omicron wave seems to have passed.” Despite high incidences, the number of corona patients in intensive care units has halved in the last three months.
Update March 28, 10:07 am: On Monday, the krona’s numbers dropped a bit again. According to the Robert Koch Institute, the incidence on Monday was 2,178.1 (previous day: 2,184.6). As of Friday it was still scratching the 2200 mark with 2199.9. Bavarian health authorities reported 20,601 new infections on Monday. In the last 24 hours, 13 new corona deaths were added. A total of 22,394 people in Bavaria have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic. According to the State Department of Health and Food Safety (LGL), the actual number of infections is even higher. The reasons are the number of undetected infections and delays in reporting to local authorities.
Economy Minister Aiwanger against a corona hotspot classification for the whole of Bavaria
Update from March 28, 06:28: Deputy Prime Minister and head of Free Voter Hubert Aiwanger doesn’t think it makes sense to declare all of Bavaria a corona hotspot. “The requirements are not met because we don’t have a particularly dangerous virus variant, nor is the health system in general facing overload,” he told Passauer Neue Presse (Monday). There are a lot of gaps among the nursing staff, but not particularly many patients who are in intensive care units because of Corona.
Aiwanger also spoke out in favor of changing the regulations to isolate those who tested positive. “I think the Austrian regulation makes sense here, that you no longer have to stay at home for the PCR test with a Ct value of 30 or more, because you are no longer infectious from that value. With us, many people are even in house with a Ct value of 37 or 39 for a week,” he said.
Corona in Bavaria: Cabinet decides new rules
The Bavarian cabinet is due to decide on the crown’s future rules for the Free State on Tuesday. The central question is whether, for example, the obligation to wear masks indoors should be maintained beyond 2 April. To do that, the country would have to be formally declared a hotspot and that would have to be decided in the state parliament.
Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) has criticized the planned end of most corona restrictions and wants to extend the mask requirement by four weeks. “All of Germany is a single hotspot,” said Holetschek of the Augsburger Allgemeine (Monday).
The prerequisite for the application of the hotspot rule is that there is a “concrete risk of a dynamically spreading infection situation” – for example, if “due to a particularly high number or a particularly sharp increase in new infections, there are a risk of overloaded capacity hospitalization”. It is legally contested whether an entire federal state can also declare itself a hotspot.
Corona incidence remains at a record level, but the rules are expiring – is Söder now making all of Bavaria a hotspot?
First report of March 27, 2022:
Munich – The incidence of corona in Bavaria has dropped slightly. For Sunday (March 27), the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gives the value of cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days as 2,184.6 on its corona panel. In one day, 30,602 people in Bavaria were infected with the virus and 21 people died. Currently active Corona* cases in Bavaria are around 10,800.
In light of such record figures in crown figures for days* and understaffing in many Bavarian clinics*, Markus Söders’ office* on Tuesday (March 29) is due to decide on future crown rules for the state Free. The central question is whether, for example, the obligation to wear masks indoors should be maintained beyond 2 April. To do that, the country would have to be formally declared a hotspot and that would have to be decided in the state parliament.
Corona-News: Most restrictions set to drop on April 2 – also in Bavaria?
Under the new Federal Infection Protection Act and using a transition period, the vast majority of corona restrictions automatically end on April 2*, especially corona access rules such as 2G and 3G. All that remains is the mask requirement in nursing homes, clinics, local and long-distance transportation, and a testing requirement in nursing homes and schools – but not the mask requirement in other indoor areas such as retail, healthcare facilities. leisure or in schools.
On Tuesday (March 29), Markus Söder’s cabinet will decide on future crown rules in Bavaria. © image alliance/dpa | Peter Kneffel
However, federal states can continue to set stricter rules by resolution of the state parliament. The prerequisite for the application of the so-called hotspot rule is that there is a “concrete risk of a dynamically spreading infection situation” – for example, if “due to a particularly high number of new infections or a particularly sharp increase” of new infections, hospital capacities in the respective local authority threaten”.
Corona in Bavaria: Söder declares all of Bavaria a hotspot? And is he allowed to do that?
It is legally contested whether an entire federal state can also declare itself a hotspot. But that would be exactly the prerequisite to be able to maintain the mask requirement in retail throughout Bavaria.
The state government has recently – so far in vain – demanded an extension of the transition period or uniform criteria across the country for the application of the hotspot rule. This should also be a topic at the health ministers’ conference on Monday (28 March). Ultimately, however, the cabinet must decide on Tuesday – otherwise the rules will expire. It is also conceivable that the hotspot regulation will only be used at a later time. (dpa/jo) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA