Since the beginning of testing in Germany up to and including week 22/2020, 4,694,147 laboratory tests in at least 170 laboratories have been recorded to date, 217,680 of which have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The number of tests is not the same as the number of persons tested, as the data may include multiple tests of patients. [321] Auf 10 Euro ist der tarifliche Mindestlohn für Friseure in Bayern zum 1. Januar 2020 gestiegen. Die im Tarifvertrag geregelten Entgelte reichen damit von 1.690 Euro für neue Mitarbeiter über 2.247,70 Euro für erste Kräfte bis 2.923,70 Euro für Betriebsleiter und Ausbilder in Betrieben mit 15 und mehr Mitarbeitern. „Seit 2003 findet an jedem letzten Montag im Juni die Friseurwallfahrt nach Andechs statt und es ist schade, dass wir sie aufgrund von Corona ausfallen lassen mussten“, so Landesinnungsmeister Christian Kaiser. „Daher freut es mich um so sehr, dass unsere Geschäftsführerin Doris Ortlieb, die Mitarbeiterinnen der Geschäftsstelle und unser Ehrenmitglied Josef Wieser spontan die Initiative ergriffen haben und eine informelle Friseurwallfahrt durchgeführt haben.“ Angeschlossen haben sich Friseure aus Oberbayern, Oberfranken und der Oberpfalz. Ein Gottesdienst wurde nicht gefeiert, aber gemeinsame Gebete auf dem Weg und in der Klosterkirche gesprochen. Dann ging es in den Biergarten unter strengen Abstands- und Hygieneauflagen zu Bier und Schweinshaxn.
Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder lobt in seiner Regierungserklärung am 20. April 2020 die Arbeit des bayerischen Friseurhandwerks. Es war die zweite Regierungserklärung zu Corona. Bremen`s first case was detected on 1 March 2020.[40] One person had already recovered as of 15 March 2020.[40] On 17 June, German authorities announced that a total of 657 people had tested positive at a slaughterhouse run by meat processing firm Tönnies in the city of Gütersloh, out of 983 completed tests. Numbers were expected to rise once the total number of just over 1,000 tests had been completed. As a consequence, schools in the districts were closed until the start of the summer holidays on 29 June. Tönnies apologized for the outbreak. [279] The company announced later that over 5,000 further members of the workforce would be tested, with the production staff ordered to stay inside their living quarters when not at work until the remaining meat products had finished processing. Virologist Isabella Eckerle stated that she considered it “extremely unlikely” that the spate of infections had been the result of workers returning to their home countries in Eastern Europe over the preceding long weekend, and that a superspreading event was more likely to have been the cause of the outbreak. [280] By 20 June 2020, the number of positive tests exceeded 1,000.[281] On 23 June, against the backdrop of a rise in confirmed cases to above 1,500, Minister President Armin Laschet and State Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann announced that neighbouring districts of Gütersloh and Warendorf would, until 30 June, be subject to the same contact restrictions as in March. Schools in Gütersloh would also close until the summer break.
In the meantime, wide testing of the local population would be carried out to establish the extent of the outbreak; to that date, merely 24 positive tests had been returned from those who did not work at Tönnies.