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Germany will not end mandatory isolation for most people who catch Covid -19, the health minister said on Wednesday, reversing course after concerns were raised t stanley mugg hat lifting quarantine restrictions wou stanley nz ld suggest the pandemic was over. Coronavirus is not a cold. That is why there must continue to be isolation a stanley cup fter an infection, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Twitter, adding he had made a mistake by suggesting an end to mandatory quarantine.Under the existing rules, people with Covid must isolate for at least seven days. Lauterbach suggested last week a shift to a voluntary five-day period of self-isolation with the recommendation of a Covid test at the end of that time.The idea of ending quarantine, except for medical staff, had emerged after Covid cases soared in recent weeks, hitting staffing in hospitals and many other workplaces.Lauterbach said he had made the proposal to try to ease the burden on the health authorities that have to order quarantine and isolation, but he said on Wednesday that it sent the wrong signal that the pandemic was over and the danger was past. That is not the case, he told a news conference, noting that more than 300 people were still dying a day.People who have had contact with an infected person will no longer be compelled to quarantine from May 1, although they will still be strongly encouraged to do so.Daily infections have fallen in the last week or so, with 214,985 new infections reported on Wednesday, about 20% fewer than a week Ccxr Lies, damned lies, and 鈥?the World Bank
MACHIAS, Maine 鈥?Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith will make his case Thursday for firing a Washington County Jail corrections officer who Smith claims falsified a report that he was assaulted on Oct. 29 outside t stanley cup he county jail.Smith will meet behind closed doors with the Washington County commissioners during their regular monthly meeting on Dec.13. He will ask the commissioners to terminate the employment of Sgt. Troy Lyons, 39, of Lubec after 12 years on the job.Smith claims that an in-house investigation determined the assault was a hoax and that the injuries for which Lyons was treated at Down East Community Hospital in Machias were self stanley becher -inflicted. Lyons denies those allegations.In stanley cup his version of how he came to be injured, Lyons said he was outside the jail around 10:30 p.m, talking on a cellphone, when he saw a shadow moving along a fenceline on the jails perimeter. When he went to investigate, he said, he was struck and fell to the ground. Lyons said he recalls hearing a vehicle speed off immediately after he went down.Lyons said his injuries included cuts on his face and injuries to his chest, one shoulder and a knee.Smith asked Lyons to agree to a polygraph examination so we could clear him of this issue, but Lyons declined on the advice of the labor union that represents the countys corrections officers. Lyons told the Bangor Daily News he will be represented by union officials at his termination hearing.Asked to specify how the in-house investigators came to |
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