From 1 January, quarantine after close contact with a positive is no longer equated to illness for workers.
The clarification comes from INPS: "The equation to illness of the period spent in quarantine with active surveillance or in fiduciary home permanence with active surveillance by private sector workers is recognized until 31 December 2021, against a specific allocation".
For this year, in fact, the Draghi government has not made any provision, so employees are not entitled to any compensation.
Quarantine is much less frequent for those who are vaccinated or cured, by virtue of the new rules envisaged in the event of close (or high-risk) contact with a positive Covid, as reported in the circular issued on December 30, 2021 by the Ministry of Health.
Anyone who has completed the primary vaccination course or the booster dose or has been cured for 120 days should no longer do it.
Until the tenth day following the last contact, these people are required to wear Ffp2 type masks and to undergo, if symptomatic, a rapid or molecular antigen test on the fifth day following the last exposure to the case.
For those vaccinated for more than four months, however, the quarantine is five days, with the obligation of a negative swab at the end of the isolation period.
Instead, those who are not vaccinated or have not recovered from Covid-19 have the obligation to remain in quarantine for ten days.
(Unioneonline / F)
