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France will allow Covid-infected health staff to continue working while sick The government needs health workers infected with Coronavirus, but have few or no symptoms, to continue treating people rather than self-isolate amid a hospital-staffing shortage. (AP) Exemptions to France’s quarantine rules are being rolled out to health facilities needing staff and strained by growing infections caused by Omicron. Though a calculated risk, with the chance workers with Covid could infect colleagues or patients, those downsides are being weighed against what the government says is a need to keep essential services running. Desperate times call for desperate measures.