Occupational doctors' enhanced role in combating COVID-19: contact tracing, quarantine certificates and testing
On 21 January 2021 a new royal decree was published in the Official Gazette which has temporarily extended occupational doctors' role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace. Occupational doctors will be contact tracers in the workplace and in this context have been given the authority to: identify high-risk contacts in the company; issue a quarantine certificate for these workers; and refer certain workers to be tested or to carry out the test themselves if they consider such action to be more appropriate. This does not mean that employers can now have their workers tested on a ...
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