This article sets out the procedure when an employee has
coronavirus symptoms in Mexico and how they can obtain a wage
subsidy during their illness, convalescence during
quarantine.
In Mexico, the Social Security Mexican Institute (IMSS) is the
authority in charge of providing employee health services, medical
assistance, protecting subsistence and social services for
individual and collective wellbeing, as well as granting pensions
that will be guaranteed by the Mexican Federal Government.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and in accordance with
the regulations on social security, when an employee is diagnosed
as having symptoms of Covid-19 by a hospital or medical institution
affiliated with the IMSS, she/he must answer a questionnaire and if
the result qualifies her/him as a probable Covid-19 case, the
institution will prescribe a Covid-19 test.
