TOKYO (Bloomberg): Japan will allow medical workers who have been identified as close contacts of Omicron cases to keep working, after staff absences caused by a 14-day quarantine period stressed the health system in an area suffering from a large outbreak.
The healthcare staff can continue working as long as they pass daily tests, the country’s health minister Shigeyuki Goto told reporters on Wednesday (Jan 12).
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