Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Health Departmenthas decided to extend quarantine duration for cured COVID-19 patients as fromMay 5.
The decision was made after several patients were found tobecome positive again for the SARS-CoV-2 after given the all-clear.
Accordingly, recovered patients will be quarantined at medical establishmentsfor 14 days from the day they are given the all-clear. Those who do not staythere will be monitored at home by district health centres.
Ho Chi Minh City residents who were treated in other localities will be putunder the monitoring of the municipal Centre for Disease Prevention and Controlafter they recover and are allowed to return home in the city.
In case their homes fail to meet requirements for medical quarantine, thepatients will be transferred to concentrated quarantine facilities for 14 daysafter their discharge from hospitals.
Following their 14-day quarantine, the department advise patients to refrainfrom going out in unnecessary cases, fully follow epidemic prevention measuresand regularly contact local medical stations for medical guidelines, within thenext 30 days.
The patients will also continue to be tested every day for afull 30 days after they are declared to be cured.
For those return positive again, the medical sector will put them and theircontacts under quarantine similarly to a newly detected case./.
