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Abstract : One of key sector to combat covid-19 is healthcare, whose worker are put in high risk affected physical, mental and social. Healthcare worker (HCW) defined as all staff involved to provide treatment for covid-19 patients and are put in higher risk to SARS-CoV-2 exposure than general population. In addition, infected HCW are required to work immediately as the amount of HCW is limited. Indonesia applied entry and exit test in five days to shorten isolation and quarantine period. The policy has also been applied to HCW in Sulianti Saroso Infectious Disease Hospital since January 2022. This study accounted 229 covid-19 confirmed healthcare worker in Sulianti Saroso Infectious Disease Hospital with admission date January 1st – February 28th, 2022. Conversion time was divided into two categories, less than equal to 10 days and more than 10 days. Our study showed out of all, only 20,5% of our healthcare workers had conversion ≤10 days. It means most of the result of exit test RT-PCR on day 5 after confirmed date was positive. We found correlation between symptoms and conversion time (p = 0,0001). We also found significant correlation between severity and conversion time (p = 0,0001) as in line to preceding studies. this study aimed to give recommendation and evaluation on exit test on day 5 for healthcare worker policy.