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It requires <strong>workers who remained positive after 21 days of the appearance of COVID-19 symptoms to be readmitted to work only after receiving a negative molecular swab or antigenic swab carried out in a facility accredited or authorised by the healthcare service. <\/strong>The negative molecular certificate required for re-entry must be addressed to the company physician. With a circular dated 12 April, the Ministry of Health outlined the procedures to be performed for the return to work of employees who have contracted the virus. The <strong>company physician<\/strong> must carry out a <strong>preventive medical examination<\/strong> to confirm work suitability regardless of the length of absence due to illness for <strong>workers admitted to hospital<\/strong>. This will take place after submitting a negative swab certificate. <strong>Workers with less severe symptoms may return to work after a period of isolation of at least ten days<\/strong> from the onset of symptoms. They must provide <strong>a molecular test<\/strong> with a negative result performed after at least three symptom-free days.\u00a0 <strong>Workers who are positive but asymptomatic<\/strong> throughout the period, <strong>may return to work after a period of isolation of at least ten days from the positive swab<\/strong>, at the end of which a <strong>molecular test <\/strong>is performed with a negative result.\u00a0 Unless they can remote working, <strong>workers who are a close contact with a positive case <\/strong>must inform their GP to issue an illness certificate. 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