The novel corona virus is also spreading in Bavaria further out. The Ministry of Health reported five new infections with Sars-CoV-2 on Monday.
There were two cases in Munich and one each from the Central Franconian district of Roth, the district of Freising and the district of Ostallgäu, as the Ministry of Health announced on Monday in Munich. The infected in Freising and in Ostallgäu are contact persons from previously reported cases. This means that there have been 13 new confirmed infections in the Free State since last Thursday.
Employees infected – location remains closed
Three new cases were opened on Sunday Counties of Freising, Starnberg and Ostallgäu reported. The DMG Mori company confirmed the coronavirus infection of an employee at the Pfronten location. “We can confirm that an employee at the Pfronten site has tested positive for the corona virus,” says an official letter.
The location with around 1,600 employees will remain completely closed on Monday and Tuesday. The next steps are “in exchange with the responsible authorities”.
36-year-old infected from the Allgäu in Italy
The 36-year-old employee had been in the vicinity of an Italian risk region, according to the district health department. After returning home, he went to his family doctor on Thursday with respiratory problems.
The Ostallgäu district office said the 36-year-old employee was on the mend. The man lives in Füssen and is there for 14 days in isolation. The contact persons are currently being identified.
Kita in the Freising district closes for a week
In Zolling in the Freising district, a daycare center remains closed for at least one week. An educator is the wife of the Corona infected person from the Freising district, as the local district office announced. The man was infected in the Cologne area and is being treated in isolation at the Freising Clinic.
He had relevant contact with about 30 people. It is still unclear whether the woman who had worked in the “Little Strolche” day care center and her children has been affected. Due to the large number of corona tests at the Bavarian State Office for Health, the clarification of Covid-19 infections is currently taking longer, it said.
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Nuremberg’s wife affected
Also affected is the wife of a man from Nuremberg, whose positive finding had been announced on Friday by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs. This was admitted to the Karlsruhe City Hospital on Friday.
“Both the sick man and the sick woman show mild to moderate symptoms,” the city of Nuremberg reported.
The woman is in the clinic Nuremberg on an isolation station. The city of Nuremberg announced that their children and mother were not infected.
Three cases from Saturday
The three coronavirus cases from Upper Bavaria confirmed on Saturday afternoon are people from Munich and from the counties of Ebersberg and Rosenheim, The health authorities are currently determining both possible contact persons and connections to previously known cases.
Regarding the case in Rosenheim, the local district office said that the person had been in contact with a friend on a skiing holiday in South Tyrol, who had previously been diagnosed with the novel corona virus. Since the person was without symptoms of illness, he could remain in quarantine at home.
In the case of the employee of the university hospital gain, whose positive findings had become known on Thursday evening, there are now further test results from the identified contact persons. So far, there have been no positive findings.
14 corona patients cured
So far, a total of 27 positively tested Covid-19 patients have been registered in Bavaria. The disease has already been cured in 14 patients, and all have been discharged from the hospital. All of them were related to the automotive supplier Webasto from Gauting-Stockdorf near Munich.
Corona crisis team met
The newly established Coronavirus Crisis Unit of Bavaria met for the first time at the Ministry of Health in Munich at the weekend. The meeting was led by Minister of Health Melanie Huml and Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
The crisis team dealt with major events, among other things. Local authorities and organizers are recommended to immediately apply the principles of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for risk assessment. “The result will be that some major events such as trade fairs are canceled or postponed,” said Huml after the meeting. But protecting the population is a top priority.
Ministry of Health appeals to returnees to Italy
The Ministry of Health also appealed to returning vacationers to Italy. You should be extra careful. The Ministry said that anyone who had reason to suspect an infection should contact their family doctor by phone. There is a leaflet on the website for further information.
A telephone hotline has also been set up for concerned citizens: 09131 6808-5101.
Huml defends itself against SPD criticism
Meanwhile, Minister Huml resisted criticism from the SPD parliamentary group. MP Ruth Waldmann had accused the state government of informing the population about the new cases and the consequences only slowly and inadequately.
“Sometimes the confirmation from the laboratory is already there, and it takes time to notify the person first. Of course, it is important that before we publish anything in the media, the person knows that he is positive another hour or two to really clarify this in a well-founded manner. ” Melanie Huml, Minister of Health
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