Get your stein glasses ready because, Oktoberfest is back after two years of Covid cancellations 🍻
People are once again drinking from steins en masse in Munich, whereBut prices at the beer festival have gone up by around 15% from 2019 – the last time the event was held before the Covid crisis cancelled it.
Mayor Dieter Reiter opened the event at midday local time with three knocks of a hammer and the traditional cry of ‘O’zapft is’ – ‘It’s tapped’ after inserting the tap in the first keg.The world-famous annual event typically draws around six million visitors to the Bavarian capital.Those concerns were put aside in April, when the city announced that festivities would go ahead.‘I’m glad that we can finally celebrate together,’ Bavarian governor Markus Soeder added at the opening ceremony.
A two-pint mug of beer costs between €12.60 and €13.80 this year, a rise of roughly 15% compared with two years ago, the festival’s official homepage said. Mr Soeder admitted to the Muenchner Merkur newspaper that the number of Covid-19 infections would probably rise following Oktoberfest, but ‘at the same time, thankfully, we aren’t measuring an undue strain on hospitals anywhere’.
‘That speaks for us being in new phase of corona,’ he said, adding that authorities would try to protect vulnerable people, but not prevent celebrations.
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