Lettere - 25/10/2021
Public health strategies for a safe releasing of isolated persons following SARS-CoV-2 infection
Strategie di sanità pubblica per un rilascio in sicurezza delle persone isolate a seguito di un’infezione da SARS-CoV-2
At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 12th January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that SARS-CoV-2 infected persons be discharged from isolation, regardless of isolation location or disease severity, following both clinical recovery and two sequentially negative RT-PCR swab tests performed at least 24 hours apart; on 27th May 2020, the WHO turned to a different approach, taking into consideration, for symptomatic cases, the time elapsed from the symptom onset a…