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Covid-19: Switzerland shortens quarantine to 5 days

2022-01-12T13:22:59.918Z


The Swiss government decided on Wednesday January 12 to shorten the duration of patient isolation and the quarantine of contact cases to 5 days, all ...


The Swiss government decided on Wednesday January 12 to shorten the duration of patient isolation and the quarantine of contact cases to 5 days, while wishing to extend by two months the restrictions introduced in mid-December in the face of the surge in Covid cases. 19.

During today's meeting, the Federal Council (government) decided to shorten the duration of isolation for Covid patients from ten to five days, a measure that will take effect from tomorrow, he said in a press release.

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To be able to get out of isolation, it will be necessary to have no symptoms for 48 hours, as is already the case. The quarantine of contact cases is also reduced to five days. Since January, several cantons had already reduced this quarantine to seven days. It is also limited "

to people who live together or have had comparable, close and regular contact with a person who tested positive

". Those who have been cured or vaccinated for less than four months are exempt.

"

This reduction in the duration of isolation and quarantine is explained by the Omicron variant, which has a shorter time lapse between contamination and the period of contagion

," says the government.

Faced with the fifth wave of Covid and in order to limit if possible contagions linked to Omicron, Switzerland decided on December 17 to limit access to certain establishments to only vaccinated or cured people (2G rule), to restrict the number of participants in private meetings, to make teleworking compulsory and to reinforce the obligation to wear a mask.

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These measures were to end on January 24, but "

in view of the hospital situation which remains tense

", the government proposes to extend them until the end of March.

In order to maintain the recognition of the Covid certificate by the European Union, the Federal Council also wishes to shorten the period of validity of all vaccination certificates from 365 to 270 days.

The Alpine country, which has some 8.6 million inhabitants, has recorded more than 12,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, or nearly 139 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

Some 67% of the population are fully vaccinated, less than in other Western European countries.

Source: lefigaro

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