Munich (dpa / lby) - According to the mayor of the city, this year's Munich Oktoberfest will only take place without any restrictions to protect against the corona virus - or not at all. After all, you couldn't "conjure up access restrictions out of a hat four weeks in advance," Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) told Bayerischer Rundfunk on Wednesday evening. In the short term, neither the necessary security personnel nor the technology to check digital vaccination certificates would be available.
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD), on the other hand, considers such statements to be difficult in view of the possible development of new variants of the corona virus. The Oktoberfest is scheduled to begin on September 17th.
