The German city of Munich has detected a rapid increase in the number of infections with the new Corona virus, ten days after the start of the “Oktoberfest” festival in the city in southern Germany.
And the data, issued by the German Robert Koch Institute for Virus Research today, Tuesday, indicated that the weekly rate of new Corona infections in Munich increased by about 77%, to 424.9 cases per 100,000, a clear increase from the rate of increase in the state of Bavaria (its capital is Munich). ) which amounted to 43.1% and the increase in Germany, which amounted to 29.4%.
It is customary for Tuesday to be the first day of the week in which noticeable increases in weekly rates appear, because health offices practically do not report new cases to the Institute on the two weekends (Saturday and Sunday), as the Institute includes these numbers in the numbers of the following days.
At the present time, it is not possible to prove a relationship between this rise and the “Oktoberfest” festival, the largest folk festival in the world, but it is clear that a noticeable increase in the numbers of rates often appeared after nearly a week and a half of other popular festivals, and often This rise continued for more than a week.
Before the festival began on the seventeenth of this September, experts had expected a wave of injuries due to the festival.
For his part, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach commented on the high numbers, writing on Twitter, “Oktoberfest would have been safer, not less beautiful, through the tests before entering,” and added that “the prices would have become affordable with the large numbers.”
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