Germans who repeatedly refuse to be quarantined after being exposed to COVID-19 will be detained in detention centers – and even under police guard, according to reports.
Officials in the state of Saxony – facing one of the worst outbreaks in the European nation – have already approved plans to detain quarantines in a fenced section of a refugee camp, The Telegraph said.
Another state, Brandenburg, also plans to use a section of a refugee camp.
In Schleswig-Holstein, recidivist criminals will be held in a special area of a juvenile detention center, the report said, citing the German newspaper Welt.
The state of Baden-Württemberg has two hospitals with rooms to hold the scandals, which will be guarded by the police, the report shows.
The centers aim to detain only those who continue to interrupt the closure, even after they have been fined, the report said.
States have been given powers in this regard under the Disease Protection Act, an emergency law that was passed by the German Bundestag last March and renewed in November, Dr. Christoph Degenhart, a legal expert, told Die Welt. administrative.
Joana Cotar, a member of the populist party Alternative for Germany, wrote on Twitter that those involved in the centers were “Reading Orwell Too Much.”
As of Monday, Germany had more than 2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and nearly 47,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.