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Omicron, do I have to work if I have Covid? Requesting a medical certificate is not mandatory

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Omicron, do I have to work if I have Covid?  Requesting a medical certificate is not mandatory

With the increase in the number of infections, many companies risk finding themselves without staff. Yet, if the type of job to be performed can also be carried out from home and if the company authorizes it smart working, the asymptomatic worker, if he wants, can very well continue to work. The certificate of illness, in fact, is issued by the general practitioner only at the request of the patient. “That of the asymptomatic is an abstract question – he begins Claudio Cricellipresident of the Italian Society of General Medicine and Primary Care (Simg) – Those who have no symptoms, in fact, usually do not notice that they have the covid. And, unless someone accidentally takes the test, he’ll never know he’s infected. “


However, if positivity is ascertained, the asymptomatic could at this point continue to work remotely. “Those who are positive for covid must stay at home, as indicated by a circular from INPS in 2020 – specifies Cricelli – but the doctor has nothing to do with the job issue. It is not our job to ascertain whether a person is working or unemployed. If I take the anticovid test, I am obliged by law to register the positivity. From that moment on, the data is uploaded to the national platform. And the positive patient cannot leave the house and therefore cannot go back to work until the swab is negative ». The real dilemma, for doctors, is rather that the positives, who for example use DIY tests, walk around quietly and continue to infect other people. «Let’s not forget that the asymptomatic – warns Cricelli – transmit the covid exactly like the symptomatic ones. And for this very reason we are looking at a disaster from the epidemic point of view ».

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The fear that the situation will degenerate is evident. “Those who are asymptomatic cannot go to work, they risk infecting others – warns Pina Onotri, general secretary of the Italian Doctors Union (Smi) – The positivity lasts at least 7 days and in some cases even 14. Send a positive to work, even if without symptoms, it means spreading the infection, given the resurgence of infections ». But there is an alternative. “If an asymptomatic wants to continue working he could avoid asking for a sickness certificate and the company could directly put him in smart working”. The bureaucratic issue for general practitioners is still a sore point. “In this period every doctor is quarantining at least 30 people a day – specifies Onotri – and with the whole bureaucratic procedure that revolves around certificates for illness, isolation and end of isolation, we keep patients suffering from other pathologies waiting for it. more chronic, and in need of urgent care. And anyway we are doctors, not administrative offices ». After two and a half years, it seems to be back to square one. “The covid is not an influence and even in the asymptomatic the evolution is not foreseeable – reiterates Pier Luigi Bartoletti, deputy national secretary of Fimmg (the Italian Federation of general practitioners) – Unfortunately it is still not clear that, even in the very large of the cases the covid lays in a benign way, the disease always starts in a subdued way, but then the negative evolution normally occurs 7-8 days later. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the positive patient and manage him with the appropriate therapies, immediately. However, if a person wants to work despite being positive, we cannot authorize it. The tasks related to work problems are beyond medical skills “.

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