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NVSC notes in the report that isolation due to exposure can only be prescribed by NVSC specialists after individual risk assessment. This means that if, for example, a child were isolated without NVSC instruction and her parents cared for her at home, there would be no reason to issue such a certificate of incapacity to work to those parents.
The NVSC recalls that a person who has been in contact with an infected person for less than 15 minutes for more than 15 minutes or a person who has had direct physical contact, such as shaking hands with a person with a coronavirus infection, is considered who has been at high risk (close contact with COVID-19).
Exposure is also considered high-risk if a person has been in direct contact without protective measures with body fluids contaminated with COVID-19. In general, if the patient had a face, the tissues used in the COVID-19 kit were touched with bare hands, etc.
Additionally, being in a confined space with a person with COVID-19 for more than 15 minutes is considered a high-risk contact. This means that if, for example, a person has been infected in one of the meeting rooms without properly wearing personal protective equipment, their former colleagues are considered to be at high risk.
NVSC experts remind people at high risk to isolate themselves, monitor their health and, if symptoms occur, contact the coronary hotline for a PCR test for coronavirus infection. Importantly, not all high-risk people are screened, depending on the spread of infection in a particular outbreak.
At that time, a person who had been in contact with an infected coronavirus for more than 15 minutes at a distance of more than 2 meters was considered to have had a low-risk exposure or, more generally, an accidental exposure. The same condition applies to both indoor and outdoor contact. Also, if, for example, a person rode a trolley bus with an infected person, wore protective gear, and got off the trolley after 10 minutes, such exposure will be considered low risk.
Low-risk people are not isolated, they, like all Lithuanians, must monitor their health and follow COVID-19 prevention measures.
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