[COVID-19 as an occupational disease or work-related accident: Considerations regarding insurance cover and reporting obligation in the statutory accident insurance]. / COVID-19 als Berufskrankheit oder Arbeitsunfall: Überlegungen zu Versicherungsschutz und Meldepflicht in der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung.
Dtsch Med Wochenschr
; 146(3): 198-204, 2021 Feb.
Article
in German
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1006397
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 illness can occur as an occupational disease or work-related accident. According to the German list of occupational diseases, recognition as an occupational disease 3101 requires occupational exposure of an insured person who has been exposed to an increased risk of infection compared to the general population as a result of their occupational activity in one of the four areas (1) health service or (2) social welfare sector, (3) laboratory or (4) during activities with increased risk of infection comparable to (1) to (3). The insurance cover covers employees, self-employed people - if not exempted from insurance cover - and honorary workers. The COVID-19 disease is subject to legal notification, mostly in conjunction with a contemporary SARS-CoV-2 virus detection. Regarding insured people who are not included within the aforementioned areas (1) to (4), the COVID-19 illness can be acknowledged as an occupational accident if the intense and direct contact with infected people - not intended as in the case of occupational disease 3101 - but otherwise situationally results from the insured activity itself.
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Main subject:
Insurance Coverage
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
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Occupational Diseases
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
German
Journal:
Dtsch Med Wochenschr
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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