Russia to shorten COVID-19 isolation period to 7 days
ABC News
Russian authorities say the government is shortening the required isolation period for people infected with the coronavirus from 14 to seven days
MOSCOW -- Russian authorities said Tuesday that the government is shortening the required isolation period for people infected with the coronavirus from 14 to seven days.
The move comes as Russia faces another surge of COVID-19 cases, this time driven by the rapid spread of the highly contagious omicron variant.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who runs the country's coronavirus task force, said health officials were “optimizing our approaches to quarantine and testing of our citizens, including shortening the quarantine period to seven days.”
Golikova added that other policy changes will be adopted in the coming days, without going into details about what these changes might be. She also didn't explain the rationale for cutting the isolation period.
