Quarantine rules massively flouted: coughing to super | Inland

For example, there is an urgent advice to go into home quarantine for 10 days after a trip from a high-risk country. But the vast majority (70.5 percent) do not adhere to this. Even with complaints that could indicate corona, such as coughing and sniffling, the majority (68.2 percent) still go to work or go to the supermarket. After a report from the GGD that there has been close contact with someone who has been diagnosed with corona, only 41.4 percent of the people stay at home.

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Even those who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus themselves, 17.8 percent of people still mix with others. That is worrying, Minister De Jonge (Public Health) writes to the Lower House. After all: “Isolation and home quarantine are essential parts of the approach against the spread of the corona virus.” As the minister said during the press conference on Tuesday evening: “The transmission of the virus starts and stops our behavior.”

The cabinet will intensify public communication on the subject of quarantine, ‘with an emphasis on target groups that find it extra difficult to comply with this measure’. “This mainly concerns young people and people in a socio-economically vulnerable position.”

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