Reduction of the quarantine to ten days is justifiable with strict implementation / important steps for joint action / European Commission proposals useful
"Reducing the quarantine period for returnees from risk areas from fourteen to ten days makes sense if it is strictly implemented. The risk that someone will still be infectious after ten days is relatively low compared to the risk that the quarantine will not be respected. We always have to make compromises in the current phase of the pandemic. Certain restrictions are still necessary. However, one can also take a residual risk to maintain public life. According to scientific findings, the time when an infected person's is most likely to infect others is after five day of himself been infected. After that the incidents decreases", said the EPP MEP and health policy spokesperson of the largest group in the European Parliament (EPP-Christian democrats), Peter Liese. Liese also welcomed the health ministers' efforts to improve coordination of travel restrictions and the European Commission's proposals on this issue. "The European Parliament has been pressing for a common approach since April, my group even since March. I am pleased that the ministers are now taking up the matter and I have great confidence in Jens Spahn and the German Presidency of the Council that they will also implement the essential points quickly".