New quarantine regulations can come - the Federal Council also agrees to the regulation
Created: 01/14/2022 11:52 am
The new quarantine regulations relating to the omicron variant have now also passed the Federal Council.
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After the Bundestag, the new quarantine regulations for Germany have now also passed the Bundesrat and can come into force shortly.
Berlin - The new quarantine rules for corona infected people and contact persons can come into force.
After the Bundestag, the Bundesrat also approved a regulation on Friday that creates a legal framework for this.
Among other things, it stipulates that triple-vaccinated contact persons of corona infected people no longer have to go into quarantine.
In addition, this enables shorter quarantine times in the event of infections in order to prevent a collapse in personnel in important care areas when the number of infections increases sharply.
Quarantine regulations: Federal Council approves regulation - Lauterbach speaks of the "interface" of the pandemic
In the special session of the state chamber, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) said that the pandemic had arrived at an “interface”. You're in your third year. This raises the question of whether it will be possible to defuse the pandemic in such a way that an endemic situation with only sporadic outbreaks and few deaths is reached - or whether this opportunity will be missed. “We must seize this opportunity and we have the means to do so. We have the means to largely end the pandemic in Germany this year.”
Lauterbach again appealed to all citizens who are not yet protected to be vaccinated or boosted.
"If we all claimed that we didn't need it or that we knew better or didn't want to participate or had a different understanding of the state, then we would end up in chaos." That's why he was also in favor of general vaccination.
The health minister stressed that no one should be forced to take any particular vaccine.
Lauterbach said he also got the Novavax death vaccine.
On February 21, Germany will receive a first delivery of 1.75 million doses.
