Europe 1 with AFP 6:59 p.m., November 27, 2021
On Saturday, the health ministry said anyone who comes in contact with another positive for the Omicron variant will need to be quarantined, even if they are vaccinated.
Anyone "in contact" with another who tests positive for the new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron, will need to be isolated even if they are vaccinated, the health ministry said on Saturday.
"Any person at risk of contact with a possible case or a confirmed case of the B1.1.529 variant, regardless of their vaccination status, should be considered as 'high risk contact' and should therefore be placed in quarantine", according to the text sent to health establishments and professionals and of which AFP has obtained a copy.
Currently in France, where no confirmed case of this variant has yet been announced, if a person is in contact with a person infected with the coronavirus, they should only isolate themselves for seven days if they are not vaccinated or if her vaccination schedule is incomplete and / or she is immunocompromised, according to Health Insurance.
The variant worries Europe
Concern was growing in Europe on Saturday in the face of this new variant of the coronavirus, with the announcement on Friday of a confirmed case in Belgium, followed by two cases made public on Saturday in the United Kingdom.
In Germany a suspected case was identified in a person recently returned from South Africa while in the Netherlands 61 passengers who arrived on Friday on two flights from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19.