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Munich (dpa / lby) - The number of initial applications for asylum has continued to decline in Bavaria.
Last year there were 12,346 applications, said the Ministry of the Interior in Munich.
In the year before that, the authority had registered 18,368 applications, in 2018 there were around 21,900. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) wants to present more figures in Munich today.
The President of the State Office for Asylum and Repatriations, Axel Ströhlein, is also expected.
When presenting the asylum balance for 2020, Herrmann also wants to comment on the effects of the corona pandemic, for example on the accommodation and care of asylum seekers as well as on deportations and voluntary departures.
Because of the corona-related restrictions on air traffic, many deportations did not take place.
Nationwide, the number had halved - instead of 22,097 as in 2019, there were only 10,800 deportations in 2020, according to figures published at the beginning of March.
Bavaria's bishops, on the other hand, are calling for refugees not to be deported at all during the Corona crisis.
In times of the pandemic, deportations are irresponsible from a humanitarian point of view, the Freising Bishops' Conference declared almost two weeks ago.
The church superiors had justified this, among other things, with the fact that people are often deported to countries that are much more affected by the pandemic than Germany.
This applies to both the economy and the health system.
In addition, the distribution of corona vaccines in countries like Afghanistan is still a long way off.
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Press conference asylum balance 2020
State Office for Asylum and Returns
Declaration by the Bavarian Bishops' Conference