Vaxxed and masked GPs won’t have to isolate after COVID-19 exposure: guidelines
They are designed to reduce the need to furlough staff as lockdowns ease, according to health officials
GPs who are masked and vaccinated won’t have to go into isolation should their patients test positive to COVID-19 under new national exposure guidelines.
The updated advice, which will have to be formally adopted by individual states and territories, breaks down exposure risk into four tiers, with health workers in low-risk scenarios only required to test if symptomatic (see box below).
