ADVERTISEMENTThe IATF earlier approved a shortened isolation and quarantine period for fully vaccinated health workers infected but are asymptomatic, mild, or in moderate condition as well as those exposed to COVID-19, to five days instead of the previous seven-day period. Health-care workers have opposed the new policy, saying it puts their own and their patients’ health and safety at risk. Shorter incubation“The health experts in those hospitals [who are part of the] committees will be the ones to assess if the exposed health workers are fit to be brought back in circulation. Vega said the country’s healthcare workers were 93-percent fully vaccinated and were supposed to be protected from severe COVID-19 that could lead to hospitalization or death. That’s where our recommendation for shortened quarantine and isolation was coming from,” said pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Anna Ong-Lim.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 12, 2022 08:38 UTC