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Vaud of all places! The canton with the highest number of corona cases in Switzerland is relaxing its quarantine guidelines. All that’s left to quarantine is anyone who is in a relationship with an infected person or lives under the same roof. All others are decided on a case-by-case basis. And above all: work must continue even after contact with infected people.
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Cantonal health directors do not enjoy this. “That, of course, is not what we want,” the health directors conference said. And the chief doctor of the canton of Switzerland, Rudolf Hauri de Zug, told the “Tages-Anzeiger” that the procedure was not untenable, but that it “no longer corresponded to the real idea behind the quarantine”.
The president of the Swiss Tourism Association and CVP’s national adviser, Nicolo Paganini (54), adds that his association supports efforts to reduce and keep the number of corona infections in Switzerland low. Therefore, he emphasizes: “I am concerned that Vaud is now relaxing quarantine regulations. It would be better if contact tracing capabilities were increased immediately. “
The canton of Vaud is one of the reasons why many countries consider Switzerland a risk country, emphasizes the St. Gallen resident. “It is crucial for the tourism industry that Switzerland remains safe thanks to a moderate number of new infections and that guests continue to come to us because they are not threatened with quarantine after returning to their home country.”
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“Pragmatic approach”
Marcel Tanner, an epidemiologist and a member of the crown federal task force, is more outspoken. “The Vaud approach is a pragmatic adaptation of the quarantine recommendations,” he says. Those affected would then be responsible for implementing them consistently. “That will work if you create greater understanding in the population through good communication,” he says. After all, the health system had already successfully implemented this approach in March: “You can also continue to work as a contact case, with the proper discipline.”
In the political arena, however, the quarantine issue has become a long-standing issue. SVP Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer (69) was recently open to shortening the current requirement of ten days. However, the Federal Office of Public Health has always refused to do so.
Vaudois corona quarantine should be extended
Vaudois’s approach now indirectly adopts the center parliamentary group through an initiative in which they want “practical solutions” for the economy. In addition to shortening the quarantine, such a solution may also be that the work can continue as long as there is no positive test result, as can be seen in the proposal presented by the National Councilor of CVP, Martín Candinas (40). Because in many jobs, working from home is not a solution, and the quarantine would become “a de facto ban on professional performance.”
So if Candinas has his way, Vaud should go to school with quarantine restriction as far as possible throughout Switzerland, that is, infect other cantons as well.
