MK seeking to cut quarantine period down to 12 days

MK Zvi Hauser is asking officials to look into the possibility of shortening the required quarantine period for those who were flagged by a Shin Bet phone tracking program as having been in contact with a coronavirus carrier to 12 days, according to media reports.

Hauser makes the suggestion at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which he is chairing.

The 14-day quarantine has been accepted worldwide as the safest way to be sure someone has not been infected, according to WHO guidance on the virus’s incubation period.

Earlier in the meeting, Hauser is told by a Health Ministry official that a new version of the Magen contact tracer app, which may replace the controversial Shin Bet program, has been completed and may be rolled out as early as Monday.