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The SPÖ leader criticizes the federal government. Cutting quarantine time in half is a big problem for Rendi-Wagner.
Anyone who has had close contact with people infected with Covid-19 must currently be quarantined for ten days as a “K1 contact person”; even if a negative test is presented. As reported, ÖVP Minister of Tourism Elisabeth Köstinger has proposed that this time be halved to five days in the future. Too much, as SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner now criticizes.
“The risk of infection is still too high”
A shortening of the quarantine for close contacts with a negative test is basically correct, but only after day 7 and not, as proposed by the government, after day 5. The “risk of the K1 person becoming contagious between days 5 and 7 “is” still high, “SPÖ’s boss and doctor tweeted.
Health Minister Martina Rüscher (Vorarlberg, also ÖVP) describes what are known as “free trials” as “completely illusory”. The reason for this is the incubation period of five to seven days, so there is no point in being able to finish the quarantine on the fifth day. Reliable tests are only possible from the eighth day. “Then I would get the negative test result on the ninth day. Anyway, the quarantine ends on the tenth day,” he says in the “Vorarlberger Nachrichten”.
