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Christina Berndt, Nadja Lissok and Michaela Schwinn
Proponents speak of a step towards normality, Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) fears a leap into the “winter wave”: Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein announced an end to the obligation to isolate on Friday. In these federal states, people in whom the corona virus has been detected with a PCR or official rapid test will no longer have to isolate themselves for at least five days. “It is the right time for people to take more personal responsibility,” said Bavaria’s Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU).