Health experts urge Italy to relax quarantine rules

Health experts are urging the Italian government to relax the COVID-19 quarantine rules because under the current rules people who have been in close contact with an infected person with COVID-19 are required to self-isolate for seven days if they have been vaccinated and for 10 days if they have not. And Nino Cartapillotta, head of the Gimpei Health Foundation, predicts that within two weeks, about one million people in Italy may have contracted Covid-19, adding, "This means that five to ten million people can be sent to quarantine, and this is not possible." "It is clear that at this point and with the spread of Omicron we must consider changes in the way we intervene, otherwise we are heading towards a general lockdown," said virologist Fabrizio Brigliasco.