The Swiss health authority has decided that the cantons can reduce the quarantine of contact cases to 7 days instead of 10 previously, given the rapid progression of Omicron.
The Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) thus hopes “to interrupt the most probable transmissions and to flatten the epidemiological curve while limiting the impact of quarantine measures on society”, he indicates in his new recommendations, transmitted to the cantons.
From now on, “the duration of the quarantine is reduced to 7 days and is limited to people living together or having been in intimate contact with a person who has tested positive”.
These people are exempt from quarantine if they have received their last dose of vaccine for less than four months or have recovered for less than 4 months. A test is not necessary to end the quarantine.
However, the quarantine will now apply to people vaccinated for more than 4 months.
Faced with the fifth wave of Covid and in order to limit if possible contagions linked to Omicron, the government decreed, on December 17, to new restrictions by limiting access to interior spaces and the number of participants in private meetings, by making telework compulsory and by reinforcing the obligation to wear a mask, among other things.
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