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The final decision, on the possible reduction from 14 to 10 days, will arrive in the next few days but meanwhile the experts of the Scientific Technical Committee met to evaluate the measure, after France’s decision to reduce it to 7 days.
“We were surprised by the French government’s decision to shorten the quarantine, we will meet on Tuesday to start a discussion. There will be a confrontation with France and other European countries. To date, the WHO says that the quarantine period should be 14 days.” With these words, the coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee (CTS), Agostino Miozzo, had announced one of the items on the agenda of today’s meeting of the group of specialists working together with the Italian government, including precisely that of reducing isolation. positive for coronavirus from 14 to 10 days.
Additional controls
Among the first rumors, it emerged that more controls will be needed to determine whether it is appropriate to reduce the quarantine, currently set at 14 days, to 10 days, while the 7-day limit seems to be excluded instead as in France. This, according to what has been learned, is the result of the expected meeting of the Scientific Technical Committee on the subject. The experts, in line with the prudential line adopted so far, have expressed the need for a comparison also with international institutions, starting with the WHO and the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC).
The French situation
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Coronavirus, quarantine reduced by half in France: from 14 to 7 days
The final decision on our country, as announced by Miozzo himself, will only take place in the next few days and is closely linked to the one taken in France, where there is a quarantine for people who have been in contact with Covid-19 positives. . it dropped from 14 to 7 days. This was announced a few days ago by Prime Minister Jean Castex, who, illustrating the new measures against the new coronavirus pandemic, explained that the objective is “to avoid a generalized confinement.” Castex had stressed that in France the coronavirus “circulates more and more” and that the situation has “deteriorated”, so much so that the rebound in Covid-19 cases is putting the health management of the crisis to the test in the southern capital of Marseilles. , where soon the intensive care and resuscitation units of hospitals will no longer be able to accept new patients. The alarm was launched in the last hours by Jean-Olivier Arnaud, director of the Marseille hospitals. “We are not far from the saturation point of our hospitals,” said the expert.
Assumptions about Cts evaluations
Regarding the short quarantine, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, had confirmed in recent days that “no decision has yet been made, these are evaluations that we will do with our scientists but we must consider that at this time the indication of the WHO is and continues to be the 14-day period. ”The meeting of the Scientific Technical Committee, at this point, could also confirm the prevailing orientation of not reducing the current two weeks of quarantine to the ten days we are talking about. According to the scientists , the reason for this line of extreme caution lies in two elements: the reopening of schools, a priority objective for the government that could lead to a further increase in infections, and the real risk that, by reducing the quarantine time, less easy to spot the positives. One element, the latter, also confirmed by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) in a document based on 5 different studies and that is already being examined by the CTS. The reduction to 10 days, the European experts explained, “would result in a loss of detection of symptomatic cases among close contacts of confirmed cases of around 6%.” This would be a percentage “large enough to be of relevance to public health in a setting where the level of exposure is high”, such as close contact quarantine.
