Following the example of Great Britain: FDP wants to completely abolish the obligation to isolate

Modeled on Great Britain
FDP wants to completely abolish the obligation to isolate

According to the new RKI guidelines, infected people can already end their isolation after five days. FDP faction leader Dürr does not go far enough to shorten the quarantine. He advocates that those who have tested positive should “be allowed to leave the house with a mask and a distance” in the future.

FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr calls for the rules on the isolation of corona infected people to be lifted. Germany should follow the example of Great Britain, where those who tested positive no longer had to go into forced isolation, Dürr told the editorial network Germany (RND).

“Anyone who has tested positive but is symptom-free should be allowed to leave the house with a mask and distance,” he said. “I am firmly convinced that people can make their own decisions on this issue. Government regulation is no longer required for this,” added Dürr.

The new guidelines published by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Monday evening stipulate that the prescribed isolation for people infected with corona can usually end after five days. A free test on day five of isolation is therefore “strongly” recommended, but no longer mandatory. The health ministers of the federal and state governments had already agreed last week on a new regulation of the isolation order, but wanted to wait for the RKI recommendation.

Previously, people infected with corona had generally had to isolate themselves for seven days and then test negative. Bavaria and Saxony, among others, had already reduced the previous mandatory isolation of infected people from ten days to five days if those affected had no symptoms for 48 hours.

Meanwhile, the burden on clinics from the corona pandemic has decreased. “The situation in the hospitals is relaxing,” said the CEO of the German Hospital Society, Gerald Gass, the RND. With 1,300 Covid patients in intensive care units, there are fewer than they have been since September 2021. Clinics could now successively make up for previously postponed services.

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