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The General Directorate of Welfare of the Lombardy Region has sent a note to all the Ats and Asst with new indications on the duration of isolation and quarantine of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and close contacts. Communication became necessary as a result of the information included in the circular recently sent to the Regions by the Ministry of Health.
ISOLATIONS / QUARANTS AND READMISSION TO THE COMMUNITY – For asymptomatic positive cases, an isolation of 10 days is expected from the execution of the swab whose result is positive, which will end after a negative result of the molecular test carried out from day 10. For symptomatic cases, the 10 days of Isolation is calculated from the onset of symptoms: if it is vague and difficult to locate over a period of time, reference is made to the date of the positive swab. The isolation ends with the negative result of the molecular test from the tenth day, with at least the last 3 days before the swab without symptoms.
CLOSE CONTACTS – For close contacts of symptomatic or asymptomatic positive cases, a period of isolation is always required. Community re-entry is allowed after a negative rapid or molecular antigen swab from the 10th day or after a 14-day quarantine period from the last symptom-free exposure to the case, without the need for swabbing. It should be noted that, for readmission to the community of close contacts in the school setting, in case the subject ends the quarantine after 14 days without swabs, it is not necessary to request the certification of readmission from PLS / MMG.
DEFINITION OF THE TERM ‘CONTACT’ – A COVID-19 case contact is anyone exposed to a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case in a period of time ranging from 48 hours before the onset of symptoms to the time of diagnosis and isolation of the case . If the case does not show symptoms, contact with the index case is considered within 48 hours before the swab is performed.
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