“Healthcare workers currently furloughed because of previous guidance may return to work if asymptomatic,” the city’s deputy health commissioner, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, wrote in guidance released to private and public medical providers Tuesday.

“New York City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene does not require healthcare workers to undergo quarantine or to have a negative test for COVID-19 to return to work,” Daskalakis said in the updated alert.

Previously, doctors and other health care professionals who came into contact with someone who had coronavirus were told to self-isolate.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said health care facilities should consider allowing asymptomatic staff exposed to COVID-19 patients to work while wearing a surgical mask.