Faced with the rise in infections due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Germany will further restrict access to restaurants and cafes, but reduce quarantine times to avoid a possible paralysis of the country, German Chancellor Olaf announced on Friday. Scholz.
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From January 15 at the latest, customers of restaurants, cafes and bars must now, in addition to a vaccination or cure certificate, present a negative screening test for the day. But people who have already received a third dose of serum will be exempt from testing.
Reduced quarantine times
Quarantine times for patients and contact cases will be reduced so as not to risk paralyzing the country due to too many people placed in isolation. Thus, anyone in contact with an infected patient will no longer have to quarantine themselves if they have received three doses of the vaccine, have just been vaccinated or have already contracted the virus.
For all others, including those infected, the quarantine, which was so far 14 days, may be reduced to seven days on presentation of a negative PCR test.
Wearing the FFP2 mask
In all shops and public transport, short or long distance, wearing an FFP2 mask is now “strongly recommended”.
Responding to the Omicron variant
“I cannot rule out that there will be a significant increase in infections in the near future” because of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the leader warned after a meeting with the leaders of the 16 regional states. , ensuring that the measures decided were certainly “strict but pragmatic”.
Berlin intends to react to the surge of contamination with the Omicron variant in many European countries, a variant which “will soon become dominant over the whole of the territory”, according to the chancellor and representatives of the regional states.
The first European economy was affected in the fall by a virulent resumption of the epidemic linked to the Delta variant. However, the number of new cases has declined since the return to many restrictions.
But, although under control compared to France or Great Britain for example, it has started to rise again in recent days.
The new government announced shortly after taking office in early December that it wanted to make vaccination compulsory quickly, while 71.6% of the total population received two doses and 41.6% three doses. No bill has yet been formulated but Olaf Scholz reiterated his wish that it be decided quickly.
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