{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-2/division-2.37/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-2/division-2.37/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2012/506",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 8 August 2012 amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2012) 5538) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/506/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506",
  "path": "annex/division/2/division/2.37/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Epidemiological Criteria",
  "text": "At least one of the following three:\nAny person with at least one of the following three:\nEmployed in an occupation associated with an increased risk of SARS-CoV exposure (e.g. staff in a laboratory working with live SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-like viruses or storing clinical specimens infected with SARS-CoV; persons with exposure to wildlife or other animals considered a reservoir of SARS-CoV, their excretions or secretions, etc.)\nClose contact of one or more persons with confirmed SARS or under investigation for SARS\nHistory of travel to, or residence in, an area experiencing an outbreak of SARS\nTwo or more health-care workers with clinical evidence of SARS in the same health-care unit and with onset of illness in the same 10-day period\nThree or more persons (health-care workers and/or patients and/or visitors) with clinical evidence of SARS with onset of illness in the same 10-day period and epidemiologically linked to a healthcare facility",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A close contact is a person who has cared for, lived with, or having had direct contact with the respiratory secretions, body fluids and/or excretions (e.g. faeces) of cases of SARS."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In this context the term ‘health-care worker’ includes all hospital staff. The definition of the health care unit in which the cluster occurs will depend on the local situation. Unit size may range from an entire health care facility if small, to a single department or ward of a large tertiary hospital."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}