STA, 6 January 2022 - The government has expanded exceptions from quarantine at home after a high-risk contact with a person infected with Covid-19 to persons who have gotten a booster shot, who got Covid fewer than 45 days ago or who have recovered from Covid and have been fully vaccinated. Quarantine has meanwhile been shortened from ten to seven days.
The changes to the relevant decree, which will start to apply on 10 January, were adopted at a correspondence session on Thursday based on a proposal from the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).
A person will not be sent to quarantine at home after a high-risk contact after they have received a booster shot of either the Biontech/Pfizer or the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19.
Also exempted from quarantine at home in these cases are persons who have recovered from Covid-19, which they prove with a positive PCR test older than ten days, and who have received two shots of the Biontech/Pfizer, Moderna, Sputnik V, Sinovac, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Covishield or Covaxin vaccines or a combination of these vaccines.
This also applies for persons who have received one shot of the Janssen vaccine.
Health Minister Janez Poklukar meanwhile told the press in Brdo pri Kranju after the government's meeting with business representatives that NIJZ epidemiologists had proposed quarantine after a high-risk contact be shortened from ten to seven days.
The government has not put this in the decree as, according to Poklukar, "this follows from recommendations from epidemiologists and will start to be implemented next Monday under this protocol".
The minister added that NIJZ representatives would present an expert basis for this decision on Friday.
It has been proposed that quarantine would conclude without PCR testing, with Poklukar noting on Wednesday that almost 95% of infections showed within that period, which was why quarantine could be concluded without additional testing.
