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“Favorable situation to introduce”
Of: Jonas Månsson
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Tighter restrictions may apply to people living with someone infected with COVID-19.
This may mean that more people are forced to stay home.
According to Ekot, the message is expected to arrive in the next few weeks.
At present, the guidance from the Swedish Public Health Agency is that anyone who may have been infected with the coronavirus should avoid close contact with other people during the two-week incubation period.
But now new research is underway which means treating physicians should be advised to make the decision that people over the age of 16 who live in the same household as an infected person may be forced to stay home, and therefore example, not going to work.
– Previously, it was such a large infection that it could have negatively affected society. I don’t think infection control and treatment physicians had the opportunity to make these decisions before, but now it is a favorable situation and we will see if we can make this recommendation to further reduce infection, says Bitte Bråstad, General Counsel of the Agency for Ekot Public Health.
The investigation aims to make it easier for people to stay home and a doctor’s decision on the rules of conduct gives the right to compensation from the Swedish Social Security Agency.
Based on volunteering
However, there is no possibility of control.
– No, we do not have supervision, but it is based on voluntariness. I think most people will follow the rules of conduct, because they do not want to infect others. Of course, there are always those who do not follow the legislation, but it probably does not matter what control options we have either, Bitte Bråstad tells Ekot.
Photo: Lotte Fernvall
The Swedish Public Health Agency is expected to draw up new rules for covid coexistence. In the picture, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
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