The French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) has completed its guidelines on the time required for transferring patients with or who have suffered from Covid-19 to a follow-up care unit or to a nursing home, and on maintaining additional precaution measures. The HCSP wanted to clarify its previous recommendations in order to make them more operational in the field in the care sectors and units.

This document updates different guidelines previously published by the HCSP:

• Clinical signs of diagnostic orientation of Covid-19 (Guidelines, 20 April 2020)
• Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: update of the management (Guidelines, 23 July 2020)
• Covid-19: time to transfer to a follow-up care unit or a nursing home (Guidelines, 23 October 2020)