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On Monday, the canton of Basel-Stadt reported 34 new corona virus infections. Eighteen of them were found in the federal asylum center, where the number of infections rose to twenty on Tuesday, October 13. More test results for the 200 residents are pending.
Infected in isolation
The eighteen infected people are currently isolated in Allschwil. “They were taken to the isolation room from the Federal Asylum Center in Basel, where they were housed until last weekend,” the media spokesman for the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) Reto Kronmann told Telebasel.
Two employees were also infected with the virus; they are also isolated. The asylum center has now adopted more protective measures. All asylum seekers were screened for Covid-19.
Additionally, there is an extended mask requirement. “All asylum seekers, but also employees and service providers, be they care or security, have to wear a mask all the time when they are in the federal asylum center,” the media spokesman explained on Tuesday. .
Curfew in clarification
Now there is a possible curfew for asylum seekers in the room. In the asylum center, isolation and therefore control of the spread of the virus is easy, explains canton doctor Thomas Steffen. Private events and family gatherings are quite worrying. There, the canton doctor warns you not to be careless.
