According to the guidelines, the health care workers (HCWs) can resume duties while wearing PPEs if symptoms have subsided (except mild cough), and they are not feverish for three successive days.
“Exposed shall continue to work wearing appropriate PPE and test themselves at day 5 of the exposure or if symptoms develop anytime within 14 days from the day of exposure,” said the guidelines released by the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
This has agitated the already short-staffed doctors who have been working in 60 per cent capacity amid the rising number of doctors testing positive to the virus.
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