Status: December 18, 2020 9:08 p.m.
Close contacts of people infected with corona should immediately go into domestic isolation – even without an official request from the health department.
Schleswig-Holstein’s Ministry of Health issued a decree on Friday calling on the districts and independent cities to publish a new general decree on quarantine measures. According to this, close contact persons of people who have a proven coronavirus infection should go into quarantine immediately and independently. According to the ministry, this is intended to provide clarity for these close contact persons in particular. A letter from the authority should no longer be necessary.
So far delays due to overload
Close contacts belong to category one. This means that they had close contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus – without any distance, for at least 15 minutes. These contact persons have so far – in addition to the sick person – been quarantined as part of the contact follow-up by the health department. Due to the fact that the offices were too busy, there were some delays. The new regulation is intended to prevent this problem.
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