Germans who repeatedly refuse to quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 will be detained in detention centers, and even under police custody, according to reports.
Officials in the state of Saxony, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks in the European nation, have already approved plans to hold quarantine puzzles in a closed section of a refugee camp, The Telegraph said.
Another state, Brandenburg, also plans to use a section of a refugee camp.
In Schleswig-Holstein, the repeat offenders will remain in a special area of a juvenile detention center, according to the report, quoted by the German newspaper Welt.
The state of Baden-Württemberg has two hospitals with rooms to contain the insults, which will be monitored by police, according to the report.
The centers are intended to detain only those who continue to break the lock even after being fined, according to the report.
States have been given powers to do so under the Disease Protection Act, an emergency law that was passed by the German Bundestag last March and renewed in November, Dr. Christoph Degenhart told Die Welt. expert in administrative law.
Joana Cotar, a member of the populist party Alternative for Germany, tweeted that those involved in the centers had been “Read too much Orwell.”
To date, Germany has seen more than 2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and nearly 47,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.