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In the corona pandemic, France wants to reduce the quarantine time for infected people and their contact persons from the current 14 to seven days. Health Minister Olivier Veran announced a cabinet decision on Friday. The government’s scientific advisory board agreed to the reduction, he told France Inter radio station on Tuesday.
“It is particularly contagious in the first five days after symptoms appear or after a positive test,” Veran said. After a week, the risk of infection is only “very low.” With the shortening, the government wants to achieve a better acceptance of self-isolation: “A large proportion of the French do not adhere to quarantine,” said the Minister of Health.
Provence risk zone
A similar measure is being discussed in Germany. The health ministers of EU countries agreed last week to shorten the quarantine period for returnees from risk areas from 14 to 10 days. Germany currently classifies the Paris metropolitan area, as well as the region around the Côte d’Azur and the Provence of southern France, as risk areas.
The number of infections is increasing enormously
The number of infections has increased enormously in France for more than three weeks. On Monday night, there were 4,203 new infections in 24 hours, in the previous three days to a total of almost 25,000, about eight times more than in Germany. In the particularly affected port city of Marseille, the first hospitals report that intensive care beds are almost fully occupied. With more than 30,700 deaths, France is one of the worst affected countries in Europe.
