French Health Minister Olivier Veran has said that the isolation period for fully vaccinated people tested positive for Covid-19 will be reduced to 7 days from the current 10 days.
The French authorities are following the example of other countries, such as the United States, which this week reduced the quarantine period to prevent service and business malfunctions due to staff shortages.
“The quarantine could be lifted after 5 days, in case of a negative test. “Those who are not fully vaccinated should be isolated for 10 days, with the possibility of being quarantined after 7 days, under the same condition,” Mr Veran told the Journal du Dimanche.
He also said that the new Omicron variant is too contagious to be stopped without re-imposing a strict lockdown.
In his New Year’s Eve speech, French President Emmanuel Macron said the coming weeks would be difficult, but declined to announce new measures to curb the spread of the virus.
“We will remain vigilant throughout January,” Mr Veran said, adding that the outbreak of the Omicron variant could be the latest.
France became the sixth country in the world to record more than 10 million infections since the pandemic began, according to official figures released on Saturday.
The French health authorities announced 219,126 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 within 24 hours. It was the fourth day in a row that the country recorded more than 200,000 infections.
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