Sick leave for self-isolating first-level COVID-19 contacts in Belarus

14:57, 10 April

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First-level contacts of COVID-19 infected will get a sick leave for the time of self-isolation, Belarus' Deputy Healthcare Minister Yelena Bogdan told journalists.

Yelena Bogdan noted that the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry allowed first-level contacts to self-isolate at home. “We have decided that first-level contacts who test negative for the virus should stay at home for 14 days,” she said. “They will get a sick leave for up to 14 days,” Yelena Bogdan added.

First-level contacts will be under medical supervision. “We will test such patients for the coronavirus on the 1st, 7th, and 13th days,” Yelena Bogdan noted. Healthcare workers will visit such patients three times during the self-isolation period and phone them daily to get an update on their health condition.

Yelena Bogdan pointed out that earlier this week the Belarusian Council of Ministers adopted a resolution that sets forth the self-isolation rules.

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