Health ministers advise on shortened quarantine

Karl Lauterbach

The Federal Minister of Health wants to tighten the corona rules in the fight against the Omikron variant.

(Photo: imago images / Reiner Zensen)

Berlin In view of the rapidly expanding Omikron variant, the federal and state health ministers want to shorten the quarantine period significantly. This emerges from a resolution of today’s meeting in which the ministers call on the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) to submit modified rules for the federal-state conference on Friday.

“Very high incidences are to be expected,” said the chairwoman of the conference of health ministers and minister in Saxony-Anhalt, Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD), on Wednesday afternoon after the meeting. At the same time, however, studies have shown that the Omikron variant has a milder course than the Delta variant. “That is why we are thinking of adapting the regulation with regard to the new variant,” said Grimm-Benne.

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