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Nuremberg cancels the Christkindlesmarkt
Monday, October 26, 3:51 pm: The world famous Nuremberg Christmas Market will be canceled this year due to the corona pandemic. The city of Nuremberg announced it on Monday in view of the growing number of corona cases. “This decision is very difficult for us. The Christkindlesmarkt with its great tradition is part of Nuremberg,” said Mayor Marcus König (CSU).
The number of new corona infections in Nuremberg is also approaching the threshold of 100 and more infections in seven days. According to the Bavarian Ministry of Health, it is currently 76.01. “It can be assumed that the threshold will rise above 100 in the near future and the crown traffic light of the Ministry will turn dark red,” said König.
Originally, the city had planned to have the traditional Christkindlesmarkt more decentralized and with a strict hygiene concept. But in light of the growing number, the city now thinks this is the wrong signal, König said. Together with the Striezelmarkt in Dresden, the Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg is one of the oldest Christmas markets in Germany. The Child Jesus traditionally opens it with the prologue, which is usually heard by thousands of visitors in the main market. The city is still considering what role the Infant Jesus of Nuremberg could play this year, he said.
Huml: required exit restrictions in the Rottal-Inn district
Monday, October 26, 3:45 pm: Bavarian Health Minister Melanie Huml (CSU) has asked the people of the Rottal-Inn district to understand the exit restrictions and the closure of schools and kindergartens. The restrictions are necessary in order to break the chains of infection, Huml said in Pfarrkirchen on Monday. And for this you need to know less and limit your contacts. “I am aware that there are always cuts to the population,” Huml said. But now it is necessary to act. “The virus can only be fought together,” he emphasized.
In the Rottal-Inn district of Lower Bavaria, people can only leave their apartments after midnight on Tuesday for valid reasons. Schools and kindergartens will be closed, as will restaurants. The events are canceled.
Partial closure at Rottal-Inn
Monday, October 26, 11:04 am: After Berchtesgadener Land, a local partial lockdown is also applied starting at midnight in the Rottal-Inn district of Lower Bavaria to control the increasing number of corona infections. This was announced by the district office in Pfarrkirchen after a meeting of the local crisis team on Monday morning. For the district’s 120,000 residents, rules similar to those imposed a week ago in the Berchtesgadener Land district will take effect on Tuesday.
At the moment, people can only leave their apartments for valid reasons, for example, to work or go shopping. They should also be allowed to walk and play sports, but only by themselves. In addition, they are closing all schools and nurseries, as well as hotels and inns, although they are still allowed to sell their meals. This partial blockage in the district had already become apparent over the weekend, when the number of infections continued to rise. On Monday, the seven-day incidence was 260, slightly higher than a week ago in Berchtesgadener Land. Nowhere in Bavaria is the number of new infections greater.
It’s also unclear where these come from in the Rottal-Inn district. According to the district office, there is an outbreak in Inn Valley around Simbach, where the first infections occurred two weeks ago in a home for asylum seekers and a nursing home for religious sisters. Furthermore, the District Office in Pfarrkirchen speaks of a “diffuse event” in almost all communities in the very rural district, where people live much longer than in most other districts.
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Augsburg also exceeds the incidence value of 200
Monday, October 26, 10:36 am: The third largest city in Bavaria has passed the 200 new corona infections mark in seven days’ worth. As the city of Augsburg reported on Monday, there have been 205.4 new infections per 100,000 residents in the last seven days. In the middle of the week, the city administration wants to see if the protection measures already taken are taking effect. “Then, in coordination with the Swabian government and the state government, it will be decided how to proceed,” the city announced. Depending on the municipality, a second closure is also possible.
The city of around 300,000 residents had already issued stricter regulations to curb the number of new infections, which has been increasing for weeks. For example, in schools of all grades, a mask is required in class. Only people from two households or a maximum of five people can get together, this also applies to family celebrations. In the center of Augsburg, an outdoor mask is also required.
Bavaria warns Austriabefore shopping on the national holiday
Monday, October 26, 9.26 am: In Bavaria it is feared that on Monday, despite the crisis in the Crown, many Austrians would like to take advantage of their national holiday to go shopping in the Free State. Bavarian Health Minister Melanie Huml (CSU) noted on Sunday that there were no quarantine exceptions for purchases. “Even if we like to have our Austrian neighbors with us under normal circumstances, cross-border travel just for shopping is not a good idea with the current corona infection situation and is not allowed.” The daily increasing numbers are worrying. Contact of any kind should be avoided as much as possible.
The quarantine obligation applies to everyone entering Bavaria from a foreign risk zone, Huml stressed. A purchase, however brief, is no exception. According to the current entry quarantine regulations, anyone who has been in a risk zone for more than 48 hours and enters Bavaria is obliged to go into quarantine. The minister stressed: “And that is the case for people living in Austria. As a result, the 48-hour exception rule does not apply to people who permanently live in a risk zone and enter Bavaria from there.”
According to the Ministry of Health, the exemption applies, among other things, to Bavaria that was briefly in a risk zone because they wanted to work there or visit a partner. Huml appealed: “I ask everyone to use common sense. This is not the time to travel and meet. We want to prevent the virus from spreading as much as possible.”
26 districts and urban districts reach the dark red level
Monday, October 26, 7:26 am: Dark red in the so-called Corona traffic light – this level reaches more and more independent districts and cities in Bavaria. Although there were 20 municipalities on Sunday that exceeded the value of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a week, this Monday there are already 26. According to the calculations of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), for example, Ingolstadt has also crossed the mark, the city has an incidence value of 101.9. Munich’s district, by far the largest in the Free State, is now at 105.3.
This means that the strictest restrictions on crown traffic lights in the Free State apply in more than a quarter of the 96 independent districts and cities of Bavaria, for example, the curfew at 9 p.m. or a general restriction on the number of spectators at the events to 50. Munich had a value of 100 just exceeded on Sunday. On Monday, the RKI placed the incidence value in the state capital at 114.5. Nationally, the seven-day incidence for Bavaria is now 87.2.
The secretary of state should take over the Corona task force
Sunday October 25, 7:18 pm: In view of the rapid increase in the number of infections, Secretary of State Klaus Holetschek (CSU) will coordinate the work of the Corona task force in the Ministry of Health. The CSU politician should be primarily tasked with coordinating Corona regulations with municipalities, as Health Minister Melanie Huml (CSU) announced Sunday night. “We had to record the highest number of new infections in Bavaria since the start of the corona pandemic in recent days,” Huml said. The operational head of the task force remains Office Head Winfried Brechmann, the highest-ranking official in the ministry.
“We are all facing an intense Corona fall and a Corona winter,” Huml said. “In Bavarian hospitals, too, more Covid-19 patients have to be treated again. This worries me, even if there are currently enough treatment capacities available to patients.”
Police dissolve party in Neu-Ulm district
Sunday October 25, 6:10 pm: After a football match, 23 people celebrated in front of a clubhouse in Illertissen and thus received a complaint under the Infection Protection Act. “They had set up beer board games in front of the clubhouse, were playing loud music, and were consuming alcohol,” said a spokesperson. Officials interrupted the celebration. In the Neu-Ulm district, private celebrations are currently limited to five people or two households.
20 dark red cities and districts
Sunday October 25, 3:48 pm: The Covid pathogen is spreading rapidly: 20 Bavarian cities and districts, including the state capital Munich, have exceeded the threshold of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. According to new data released by the State Health Office on Sunday, that’s almost twice as many municipalities as before the weekend. Apart from that, another threshold was crossed over the weekend: the LGL reported 90,194 infections since the start of the epidemic and thus more than 90,000 for the first time. In two days, 3,717 new infections were added.
All 20 cities and districts are “dark red” at the state government’s Corona stoplight, and citizens are subject to stricter restrictions in their daily lives. A maximum of 50 visitors is allowed for sporting and cultural events; Exceptions apply to religious services, demonstrations, and universities. The curfew for the catering industry is postponed for one hour and applies from 9 pm
The development in the south is particularly striking. In addition to Munich, Ingolstadt and the districts of Rosenheim and Neuburg-Schrobenhausen were added the weekend in Upper Bavaria, the districts of Augsburg and Donau-Ries in Swabia, as well as Memmingen, Kempten and Kaufbeuren. Both administrative districts are heading towards the 100 mark with 7-day incidents of 98.3 in Swabia and 93.3 in Upper Bavaria. However, the district of Fürstenfeldbruck in western Munich fell below the threshold again.
