From the point of view of the CDU and CSU in the Bundestag, the obligation to isolate medical staff with a positive corona test should be abolished nationwide.

"It cannot be explained why symptom-free but corona-positive nurses and doctors have to stay at home for up to 14 days while those suffering from the flu could theoretically work," said Sepp Müller (CDU), Vice President of the Union faction, to the editorial network Germany. "Anyone who is sick stays at home - and the rest goes to work."

It is also about the tense situation in the clinics, he said. "In order to counter further overloading of the hospitals, a nationwide lifting of the isolation requirement for medical staff is needed." Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) must act. "We now need every hand on the patient. Here Lauterbach must finally intervene in a coordinating manner."

Several federal states had recently lifted the isolation requirement for people infected with corona among the general population.