that’s when the contagion is confirmed

How to determine if you are facing a Covid case? It is a circular from Ministry of Health to indicate clinical, radiological and laboratory criteria, and the possible classification of cases. Specific symptoms and others less specific are indicated. For the purposes of national Covid-19 surveillance (both individual case flow coordinated by the ISS and the aggregate one, coordinated by the Ministry of Health) the ministry emphasizes to health institutions «only cases classified as confirmed according to the new definition should be reported».

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Here are the specific symptoms: cough, temperature, dyspnea (respiratory problem), acute onset of anosmia (loss of sense of smell), ageusia (loss of sense of taste) or disgeusia (change in taste). Other less specific symptoms may include headache, chills, myalgia (body aches), asthenia (tiredness or weakness), vomiting and / or diarrhea.

The circular

In addition to providing a clinical criteria framework, the document outlines radiological criteria (COVID-19 compliant framework), laboratory criteria (SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection in a clinical sample, or SARS antigen detection) CoV-2 in a clinical sample in contexts and times defined in the dedicated section: “Use of rapid antigenic tests”, epidemiological criteria. Among the latter at least one of the following two epidemiological links: close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case within 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms; if the case has no symptoms, contact is defined as a person who has had contact with the index case in a period of time ranging from 48 hours before the collection of the sample that led to confirmation and up to 14 days after or until the time of diagnosis and isolation of the case; be a resident / operator, in the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms, in health settings (hospital and territorial) and socioassis tential / social health care services such as RSA, long-term care, closed or semi-closed communities (eg. prisons, reception centers for migrants), where there is transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

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