Corona in Bavaria: Incidence is increasing again! Important Söder meeting on Monday – new easing alliance?

Markus Söder believes that Omikron enables a new phase of freedom. The incidence in Bavaria is increasing, there are more patients in intensive care units. All news in the ticker.

Update from February 21, 10.49 a.m .: Today, Monday, Markus Söder will meet NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU*) at 12.30 p.m. According to Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) , the topic should also be corona policy in addition to the NRW state elections. Both politicians had advocated easing, which was recently decided at the MPK. At 2 p.m., the country heads appear together before the press. You can follow the statements here in the live stream and ticker.

Corona incidence in Bavaria is increasing! Germany’s hotspots both in the Free State

Update from February 21, 9.20 a.m .: The corona incidence in Bavaria has increased slightly. The RKI gave the value on Monday as 1789.2 (previous day: 1773.5; previous week: 1772.0). There were almost 21,000 new infections and seven new deaths.

Corona: The two districts with the highest incidence nationwide are in Bavaria

Corona patients in intensive care units in Bavaria: the number is increasing

However, the significance of the data is considered limited. Experts assume that many cases are not recorded in the RKI data. Test capacities and health authorities are at the limit in many places, contacts are only traced to a limited extent. In addition, more and more people should no longer have their infection confirmed with a PCR test – in such cases, the infection is not included in the official statistics.

The number of corona patients in the intensive care units continues to rise: the Divi intensive care register reported 401 corona patients in intensive care units in the Free State on Monday (as of 7:05 a.m.) – a week earlier it was 351. 180 of them currently had to be invasively ventilated – a week ago it was 163.

Söder calls for more personal responsibility at Corona and hands out against traffic lights: “Must not be naive”

First report from February 20th : Munich – “Omikron enables us to transition into a new phase of freedom. There is now hardly any need for state intervention, but more personal responsibility.” Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder wrote on Twitter on Sunday morning (February 20), but warned at the same time: “But we must not become blind or naive. Corona is not gone just because the Bundestag is letting all measures expire. ”A swipe at the federal government around Olaf Scholz, who wants to end many corona measures on March 20th *?

Corona in Bavaria: Söder criticizes the traffic light – “torn inside”?

In a series of tweets, Söder calls for a “precautionary protection package” for schools and daycare centers as well as an emergency strategy for the fall. “The traffic light is required so that we are not delivered completely defenseless to Corona. The federal government is actually torn internally,” criticized the CSU* boss.

Corona: Söder demands a legal mask and test basis and uniform rules in long-distance transport

Söder calls for a legal basis “that will continue to make it possible to wear masks and tests – especially in schools. Our children should be able to complete the school year and the final exams without worry and pressure.” In addition, nationwide uniform rules are necessary for long-distance transport, because: “Corona does not adhere to timetables or state borders, here we are waiting for clear announcements from the Federal Minister of Transport.” With Söders The people in Bavaria are currently not satisfied with their work itself – this is shown by a current survey.

Corona incidence in Bavaria is falling slightly – the current hotspots

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI*), the incidence* in Bavaria on Sunday was 1773.5 (previous day: 1782.4).

For Munich, the RKI reports a value of 1399.3 (Saturday: 1415.7), in Nuremberg the incidence is 2146.9. (kam) *Merkur.de/bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA