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Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) expects that the residents of old people's homes will be vaccinated against Corona by March.
"We are largely through with the vaccination in old people's and nursing homes," he said on Saturday at an online event organized by Christian Social Workers (CSA).
He estimates that the second vaccinations will be "completely over" by March.
"Then it will also bring about a significant improvement in the question of the risk (from) Corona."
In view of the falling number of infections in Bavaria, he also wants to talk about opening perspectives.
"The curves are now developing down," said Söder.
"But the truth is that (...) the trend in Germany is not going down as much as it was last week."
In some places the numbers even went up slightly.
He imagines an “opening matrix” depending on the infection situation on site as follows: “Where more is possible, much more is possible.
Where we have to be skeptical, much less is possible. "
More than half of the counties and urban districts in Bavaria have meanwhile fallen below the incidence value of 50.
According to the figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 51 of the 96 districts and cities recorded fewer than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week on Saturday.
Of these, 27 are below the 35 mark.
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However, the upward gap is very wide: with the districts of Tirschenreuth (345) and Wunsiedel (313) on the Czech border, the nationwide front runners in terms of incidence figures are in Bavaria.
According to the RKI, Schweinfurt currently has the lowest value with a value of 11.
The number 50 is significant in pandemic management.
If the value is lower, it can be assumed that the fight against the pandemic is still under control.
The federal and state governments have made it clear that further easing steps beyond the cautious opening of schools should only take place when a seven-day incidence of 35 is reached.
However, the lower the values drop in many places, the louder the call for relaxation.
The FDP criticized Söder's vaccination promise in homes.
"What should sound like a success report by Mr. Söder is the next broken promise from Federal Health Minister (Jens) Spahn," said the vice-head of the FDP parliamentary group Michael Theurer.
Spahn had promised that all nursing home residents in the federal states would be vaccinated in the course of January, said Theurer.
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