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The Director General of Health today appealed to businessmen and schools to receive “without any fear” employees and students who had the medical discharge certificate of covid-19 because “they can return.”
Until now, the return of these patients to school or to the workplace depended on the presentation of a negative test for SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease covid-19, but the update of the standard of the General Directorate Health (DGS), which reduces the isolation period to 10 days, it is no longer necessary to perform tests.
Asked at the press conference to update the numbers of the covid-19 pandemic if the services follow this orientation, Graça Freitas stated that she cannot guarantee to date that they are all complying with it, because “there is always a transition period in which there are patients who are still on the previous regimen ”in which the test and more days of quarantine were needed (14).
“At least, the services are gradually adopting this recommendation”, but “the natural evolution will be 10 days without the need for tests for patients with mild to moderate disease who have not had worsening of their symptoms and who are without fever and without medication for fever in the past three days.
According to the Director General of Health, this is the criterion now accepted internationally according to the best available scientific evidence.
Therefore, this will be the trend in all our services to be adopted as a criterion for clinical discharge and as a criterion for determining clinical isolation ”, he explained.
Graça Freitas has wanted to make an appeal to businessmen and schools, in the case of children, who receive these patients so that “they are not afraid because that is now the criterion indicated by scientific evidence.”
“If people are discharged, it means they can go back to work or school,” he said.
According to the same DGS standard, cases of severe or critical illness should remain isolated for 20 days from the onset of symptoms, the same time established for patients with severe immunosuppression, regardless of the severity of the disease .
The DGS also highlights that in the case of health professionals or proximity care providers, patients who are going to be admitted to residences or continuous or palliative care units or patients who are going to be transferred in hospital units to areas not dedicated, a negative test will always be required for the isolation to be considered complete.
