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Abstract This is a reflection carried out between May and July 2020, considered 28 documents, and which aimed to present the practice of social health workers in the context of Covid-19 in Portugal. The following topics were addressed: Relationship of Social Work with the health system in Portugal; The National Health Service and the right to health: what do we have ?; Consolidated competences of Social Work in health; What has changed in the Social Health Service with Covid-19?; Social Work in a hospital context; Social Work in the integrated continuous care policy; and Before and after Covid-19. Covid-19 changed the routines and practices of social workers, posing challenges that have never been experienced before. These professionals became public health agents, communicating, informing and mediating the responses of health institutions with the responses of the community. The use of new technologies enabled teleworking and intervention, changing the intervention processes. In turn, social workers were more oriented towards meeting the emergency needs of the pandemic and less towards promoting human and social development.

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