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The Haute Autorité de Santé should give its opinion on the length of the isolation period for positive people and contact cases. On the 20 Hours set, Damien Mascret
On the issue of isolation of patients and contact cases, the United States has decided: it will no longer be ten days of isolation for positive people, but five. But are these accelerations motivated only by health reasons? “Not only”, announcement Tuesday, December 28 Damien Mascret, journalist at France Televisions. “We can see that the idea behind is to reduce the period during which we are most contagious”, but it should be understood that there is still a risk of contamination at the exit.
Currently, contact cases must be tested immediately. “It is only to verify that one is not already infected. The reality is that it will take two or three days to be positive”, specifies Damien Mascret. A positive person then remains positive until the eleventh or fourteenth day.
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