# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/945 of 22 June 2018 on the communicable diseases and related special health issues to be covered by epidemiological surveillance as well as relevant case definitions (Text with EEA relevance), Division: Epidemiological Criteria

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

At least one of the following three:
Any person with at least one of the following three:
Employed in an occupation associated with an increased risk of SARS-CoV exposure (for example, 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.)
Close contact of one or more persons with confirmed SARS or under investigation for SARS
History of travel to, or residence in, an area experiencing an outbreak of SARS
Two or more health-care workers with clinical evidence of SARS in the same health-care unit with onset of illness in the same 10-day period
Three 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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/945/annex/II/division/3/division/3.39/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-945/annex-II/division-3/division-3.39/division-3
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