New quarantine rules apply from Wednesday in the southwest
Created: 01/10/2022, 3:10 PM
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In Baden-Württemberg, new quarantine rules are to apply from this Wednesday.
The state government wants to implement the agreement between the federal and state governments from last week, said a spokeswoman on Monday in Stuttgart.
The SWR, the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” had previously reported on it.
The green-black cabinet should decide on Tuesday, and the quarantine and isolation of infected people should be shortened from Wednesday.
Stuttgart - It is expected that the Omikron variant of the coronavirus will lead to high numbers of infections and that many will also have to be in quarantine as contact persons. So that public life does not collapse, the federal and state governments agreed on Friday to shorten the quarantine and isolation of infected people.
After the change, contact persons no longer have to be in quarantine if they have a booster vaccination, have recently been double-vaccinated, vaccinated and have recovered or have recently recovered.
A period of up to three months is considered “fresh”.
For everyone else, isolation or quarantine should generally end after ten days.
After seven days you can also be free-tested with a PCR or antigen test.
So far, contact persons of a person infected with Omikron have been subject to a strict quarantine of 14 days - free testing is not possible.
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Since stricter access rules for restaurants, cafés and pubs already applied in Baden-Württemberg before the federal-state meeting, the general Corona regulation only needs to be adjusted very little here.
As already announced, Alert Level II should remain in effect in Baden-Württemberg - even if the number of intensive care beds occupied by Covid patients and hospital admissions remain below the limit values.
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