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If there is a corona infection in a school, the class and teachers must be quarantined. However, in the case of a case with a new variant of the virus from Great Britain or South Africa, the students’ siblings and parents will now also be quarantined in Bern. According to “Der Bund”, the adjustment is based on a recommendation from the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG).
Will the rule be applied soon throughout Switzerland? “We are planning to include this recommendation in the next version of the quarantine recommendations for cantons,” said BAG spokesman Daniel Dauwalder.
Report on a specific case
The “Confederation” has a specific case from the canton of Bern: a woman cared for her nephew for half a day. Then a case of corona became known in her nursery, probably with a new variant. Now not only the nephew himself must be quarantined, but also the woman, as the newspaper reports.
The spokesman for the Bern Health Directorate, Gundekar Giebel, explains that regulation comes into play if, according to the questionnaire during contact tracing, it should be assumed that someone has come into contact with a new variant.
The canton of Vaud is already applying the regulation
According to Giebel, the situation in Wengen BE has led to a rethinking. In the community village of Lauterbrunnen, 70 cases of corona were detected in a very short time before the Lauberhorn races. It is believed to be the highly contagious British variant. As a result, the ski race was canceled.
According to Giebel, the BAG has agreed on the measure with the canton’s doctors. The canton of Vaud is already applying this rule. The federal corona task force fears that the number of infections with the new variant of the virus will double each week. (noo)
