I have been advised to stay home
The advice we've found is that you will stay home until test results are received. Refer to "Quick Answers" below once test results are received.
From what we've read, you should stay home until all of the following apply:
- You have been fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever reducing medications)
- Your other symptoms have improved.
- It has been at least 10 days since your symptom onset. A doctor's note or Public Health release is not required to return to work.
The advice we've seen id that you need to stay home and monitor for symptoms. If you have no symptoms, you can return 10 days after you were tested.
If during the 10 days you become symptomatic, then you must continue to stay home for at least 10 more days from the date of the symptom onset and meet all the following before returning to work
- You have been fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever reducing medications)
- Your other symptoms have improved.
- It has been at least 10 days since your symptom onset. A doctor's note or Public Health release is not required to return to work.
You do not have COVID-19.
You should follow standard employee illness protocols for returning to work, such as 24 hours fever-free, or 2 days after last episode of vomiting or diarrhea, or when on antibiotics for at least 24 hours, or as approved to work by a doctor. A doctor’s note may be required to return to work based on medical condition and business illness policy.