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The statements of isolation that will be issued by the SNS24 Line to justify absences from work will be accessible through the Internet through an access code, but, for registration purposes, and if the person cannot remain teleworking, they will still need a certificate issued by the employer’s association to accredit it, explained the president of the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Luís Goes Pinheiro, at the press conference to present the evolution of the epidemiological situation of covid-19.
As of the end of this Wednesday, the SNS24 Line will pass provisional declarations of prophylactic isolation whenever there is a risk of contagion, in order to avoid that people have to resort to health services, as announced this Saturday. Prime Minister at the end of the extraordinary Council of Ministers.
The risk assessment carried out by the doctors so far can now be carried out by the professionals of the SNS24 Line (who are mainly nurses) in order to streamline the entire process. The person receives a code by SMS or email that it will be enough to prove it to the employer to justify absences from work during the period of prophylactic isolation or before any entity that requires their physical presence, explained Luís Goes Pinheiro.
However, for the purposes of medical leave, the worker has to certify that he cannot stay home while teleworking, but it will be the employer who takes this test before Social Security, he added.
Prophylactic or quarantine isolation is determined for people who are assumed to be healthy but who have been in contact with someone infected with the new coronavirus. Isolated at home are people who are infected or sick with covid-19 and who do not need hospitalization.
Until now, those who passed the prophylactic isolation certificates were health delegates, public health doctors who are overwhelmed with work due to the increase in new cases of infection. The declarations of isolation of the sick and the effects of discharge are in charge of the family doctors.
