The option of quarantine in the hotel is particularly interesting for those returning to travel in order not to endanger family members. (Sebastian Kahnert / dpa)
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8,347 Bremen residents were in quarantine at the end of last week. For most of these people this means: isolation in their own home. But what to do if there is no space for it because the rooms are too small and the number of roommates is too large? In Bremen, this problem is particularly common in parts of the city such as Tenever, Gröpelingen or Huchting. The number of people who tested positive is higher here than anywhere else in the city. The cramped living space is considered an explanation.
The phenomenon that the number of infected people is unevenly distributed in the urban area is also known to other large cities. For example Berlin: The red-red-green state government in the capital is therefore planning to rent 500 rooms in hotels in order to give people the opportunity to isolate themselves there. “This way we can break chains of infection,” says Vice Prime Minister Klaus Lederer from the Left. The SPD in Schleswig-Holstein has now brought this idea into play for its state.
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And Bremen? “That sounds very attractive at first,” says Lukas Fuhrmann, spokesman for the Bremen health department, “but there are also a lot of questions. To name a few: who is eligible? How is eligibility checked? Who distributes the rooms? How are the services billed? And with whom? ”Berlin has already found answers to some of these questions. The federal government should pay. The health department should distribute. And those who live in large families and apartments that are too small or who have no apartment at all should be eligible.
The Marburger Bund doctors’ union supports the idea of quarantine in hotel rooms. “Cramped living conditions endanger the success of the quarantine,” says chairwoman Susanne Johna. The prerequisite for the offer from the point of view of the medical profession: people have to want to go to the hotel voluntarily and they may show no or only weak symptoms.
Hotels would be pleased
“The basic idea sounds nice,” says Detlef Pauls, who among other things owns the Hotel Munte am Stadtwald and is chairman of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association for Bremen, “the hotels would be pleased if more rooms were occupied again. We would rather work than be supported. “
Pauls also sees many open questions: “How does the check-in work? How is the catering going? What does this mean for my employees? I can’t let them work all day in protective clothing. ”He also has to think about his healthy guests. Pauls asks directly: “Would you go to a hotel that also accommodates guests who are in quarantine?”
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The AWA Hotel in Munich has dared to take this step. There, individual corridors are reserved for quarantine guests. The key to check-in is in the safe. The arrangements are made by telephone. The food is put outside the door and the elevator is disinfected every hour.
The demand so far has been very moderate, hotel manager Anita Wandinger informs the WESER-KURIER on request: “Since April we knowingly had four people in the house who tested positive, currently there is one. What we have more often, however, are those returning from travel who wait with us for their negative result, high-risk occupational groups who prefer to live with us than with their families, and those who can no longer go into their homes because an infected person is in quarantine there . ”For Wandinger it is therefore clear:“ We will continue to offer the offer. ”
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Down to business
The vast majority of Bremen residents in quarantine seem to adhere to the requirements. “We meet between 80 and 90 percent of people at home,” says Dirk Siemering, one of the 30 employees of the public order office who make daily visits to the site. There are between 500 and 700 such controls daily, at the peak of the infection numbers it was up to 1000. If the quarantine requirements are violated, fines of 400 to 4000 euros can be imposed. The interior authorities cannot provide exact figures because the statistics do not differentiate between individual types of violations of the corona measures.
A doctor who had worked despite the quarantine request recently caused a stir. The public order office then closed the practice. Now the health authority and the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVHB) met to deal with the case. The KVHB still considers the closure to be excessive because the doctor was only a contact person and not tested positive. The KVHB fears bottlenecks in medical care. “We are very concerned about the flu season in January and February,” says spokesman Christoph Fox. The health authority remains in its position, but points out that those affected in quarantine can apply for an exemption from the health authority. “That will then be checked on a case-by-case basis,” says Lukas Fuhrmann, spokesman for the authority. In some cases contact persons were then allowed to go to work under strict conditions.
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