SWITZERLAND: 2,000 PEOPLE, MOSTLY CHILDREN, QUARANTINED AFTER 2 OMICRON CASES

Fri 03 December 2021:

After two cases of the Omicron variant were discovered at an international school, the Swiss cantons of Geneva and Vaud quarantined 2,000 people, the majority of whom were children.

“Following two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant which attended the Chataigneraie campus of the International School of Geneva this week, the cantonal medical services of the cantons of Vaud and Geneva have jointly taken the decision to quarantine all of the students and campus staff for ten days,” Geneva health authorities said in a statement late on Thursday.

Children made up 1,600 of those quarantined in Vaud and Geneva, according to authorities. Parents and siblings, in addition to students, would be required to take a test to check for the variant.

The health authority did not say whether the new quarantine measures were related to the previously confirmed case, but the two confirmed cases were “closely related within the family to a positive person returning from a trip to South Africa,” according to the health authority.

Switzerland has identified a few cases of the new variant spread across five cantons and has imposed travel bans from Southern Africa as well as quarantine requirements on arrivals from 23 countries, including Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

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