Border change: Health staff can return to work under exemption pathway Follows concern over post-isolation rules Healthcare staff who return to the Island following Monday's border change will be allowed back to work under an exemption pathway. Rules state all returnees must take a test, within 48 hours of arrival, and isolate until proving negative for Covid-19. Their only limitation was avoiding health and social care settings for the next 10 days unless in need of emergency care. However this caused concern for those who work in such settings who would have needed to take at least 10 days off work after their return.