Coronavirus
Union: Lift isolation requirement for health workers
Sepp Müller is deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. photo
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“Those who are ill stay at home – and the rest go to work”: With a view to the overload in the clinics, the Union calls for the isolation obligation for medical staff to be abolished.
From the point of view of the CDU and CSU in the Bundestag, the obligation to isolate medical staff with a positive corona test should be abolished nationwide.
“It cannot be explained why symptom-free but corona-positive nurses and doctors have to stay at home for up to 14 days, while those suffering from the flu could theoretically work,” said Sepp Müller (CDU), Vice President of the Union faction, to the editorial network Germany. “Anyone who is sick stays at home – and the rest goes to work.”
It is also about the tense situation in the clinics, he said. “In order to counter further overloading of the hospitals, a nationwide lifting of the isolation requirement for medical staff is needed.” Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) must act. “We now need every hand on the patient. Here Lauterbach must finally intervene in a coordinating manner.”
Several federal states had recently lifted the isolation requirement for people infected with corona among the general population.