The persons confirmed with COVID-19 but who are asymptomatic will be excluded from self-isolation after ten days of the receipt of the positive result, without doing a control test. The patients with clinical signs, but with mild and medium forms of the disease will be discharged from the hospital or excluded from home treatment after ten days of the appearance of symptoms and three more days without symptoms, also without doing a control test, as it is stipulated in the third provisional COVID-19 Protocol that was presented by the Ministry of Health on August 25, IPN reports.

Marina Golovaci, secretary of state at the Ministry, said the protocol was modified based on international records of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in the U.S. and Europe that were coordinated with the WHO. There were introduced new methods as regards the contagion of persons who got infected with COVID-19.

Doctor habilitate in medical sciences Angela Paraschiv, who heads the expert epidemiological commission, said researches were carried out to determine the time when the infected person stops to pose any risks to those around. As the test is positive for a long period of time after recovery, the person was isolated. But researches showed that the virus becomes harmless from the ninth day.

In the case of patents with serious forms, contagion lasts longer. These will be discharged based on clinical recovery and after the test done three days after the disappearance of the clinical signs is negative. All the children hospitalized with confirmed pneumonias and severe forms of disease and all the children younger than seven will continue to be tested before being discharged.

Professor Gennady Kurochkin, who heads the expert family medicine commission, noted the persons who need to be hospitalized will be subject to additional testing. These include the patients with confirmed cancers who need radiotherapy and chemotherapy and those who need surgery, the patients with system and autoimmune diseases, those infected with HIV/AIDS, those with tuberculosis and the patients who are to undergo transplant surgery. All these categories will be tested at most 48 hours before hospitalization.

Professor Tiberiu Holban, chairman of the expert infectious diseases commission, said that nine months have passed since the start of the pandemic, but there is yet no efficient etiological treatment that would satisfy all the needs. The new protocol excludes a number of preparations, but two antiviral medicines were kept – remdesivir and favipiravir.

By August 24, Moldova has got 33,800 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 945 deaths from the virus.