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Five-day isolation for vaccinated workers: Gauci mum on relaxing quarantine period
Mater Dei health workers are allowed a five-day self-isolation period if they are vaccinated
25 July 2021, 6:37am
by Matthew Vella
The public health superintendence has ignored questions about a five-day self-isolation period accorded to vaccinated health workers who come in contact with positive COVID cases, as employers raise questions about extended public health restrictions.
Prof. Charmaine Gauci issued the order in March 2021 allowing essential workers at Mater Dei Hospital who come into contact with a person diagnosed as suffering from COVID-19 – but who have completed a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine – to submit to a five-day period of quarantine only, instead of the standard 14-day period, as long as they test negative after a PCR test on the fifth day following exposure.
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Fully vaccinated people who come into contact with a positive COVID-19 case could soon be able to return to daily life without self-isolating for a full 14-day period.
The tentative plan is to allow fully vaccinated people to exit self-isolation after a five-day period and a negative PCR test result, with another swab test being required some days later.
Details are, however, still being ironed out and that five-day period – implemented during a pilot study involving Mater Dei Hospital frontliners – could be modified when the measure is communicated to the public.
The plans were unveiled by Health Minister Chris Fearne in an interview with
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