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Free testing from quarantine: A quick corona test will suffice from Saturday

2022-01-14T13:43:05.963Z


Free testing from quarantine: A quick corona test will suffice from Saturday Created: 01/14/2022, 02:28 p.m By: Fabian Raddatz A patient has a swab taken for a corona test in front of a doctor's office. © Kay Nietfeld/dpa/symbol picture The Ministry of Health in Lower Saxony recommends avoiding PCR tests in order to end quarantine or isolation prematurely. Hanover - According to the planned q


Free testing from quarantine: A quick corona test will suffice from Saturday

Created: 01/14/2022, 02:28 p.m

By: Fabian Raddatz

A patient has a swab taken for a corona test in front of a doctor's office.

© Kay Nietfeld/dpa/symbol picture

The Ministry of Health in Lower Saxony recommends avoiding PCR tests in order to end quarantine or isolation prematurely.

Hanover - According to the planned quarantine regulation of the state of Lower Saxony, both test methods, PCR test and certified rapid test, are permitted.

Hospital and nursing staff must continue to have a negative PCR test.

German country:

Lower Saxony

Surface:

47,614 km²

Population:

7.982 million (2019)

Capital city:

Hanover

A spokesman for the Ministry of Health said it was about keeping society going, NDR reports.

If everyone had to wait for the PCR test result, that would mean at least an extra day of quarantine.

With a quick test, on the other hand, the result is available after a quarter of an hour.

Lower Saxony: From Saturday, people can test themselves with a rapid corona test from the quarantine

The new regulation is also intended to relieve the laboratories.

The Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM) calculates that these are currently 65 percent utilized.

If it turns out that the demand for PCR tests is greater than the supply, then it must be prioritized, according to the Ministry of Health.

The relaxed quarantine rules that were laid down at the federal-state conference are to apply in Lower Saxony from Saturday, January 15, 2022.

Isolation and quarantine should usually end after ten days.

It is possible for those affected to be free to be tested after seven days with both test methods.

However, Lower Saxony has opted out of the 2G Plus rule in restaurants – and is adhering to its own corona rules for the catering industry.

New Corona rules will also apply to schools and daycare centers in the new year.

Likewise at the hairdresser from January 2022.

Corona and Omicron in Lower Saxony: No more quarantine for boosted contacts

So far, stricter corona rules have applied to quarantine: a person who has been in contact with an omicron infected person must comply with an isolation period of 14 days - without being able to be tested.

The Federal Council also approved the new quarantine rules on Friday - and thus created the legal framework.

It is also planned that boosted contact persons of corona infected people will no longer have to go into quarantine.

Lower Saxony had already relaxed the 2G-Plus rule for those vaccinated with boosters.

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Source: merkur

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