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Essen (dpa / lnw) - According to a media report, bans on visits to old people's and care facilities may only be issued with the express permission of the state government.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) made this clear on Friday, reported the "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" (WAZ, Saturday).
In addition, the country wants to underline the existing ban on quarantine for fully vaccinated residents with a new general decree.
He takes indications very seriously that residents who are not infected and already have full vaccination protection are still put in single room quarantine because they may have had contact with an infected person, Laumann told the WAZ. This clearly contradicts the legal situation. “We talk a lot about people who don't have much life left. It is absolutely absurd to send them into isolation, although this is not necessary at all for reasons of protection against infection, ”said Laumann.
He will also make it clear that care facilities may in future only impose visiting bans in agreement with the Ministry of Health.
The background is complaints from relatives about rigid access rules in individual retirement homes, which the operators justify with the fear of new sources of corona infection.
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