Health Ministry gives home quarantine instructions for F1s

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued guidance on pilot home isolation for F1s, who have close contact with COVID-19 patients, in Ho Chi Minh City so as to prevent overcrowding and cross-infection at concentrated quarantine sites.
Health Ministry gives home quarantine instructions for F1s ảnh 1A woman has sample taken for COVID-19 testing in Binh Tan district of HCM City (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – TheMinistry of Health (MoH) has issued guidance on pilot home isolation for F1s,who have close contact with COVID-19 patients, in Ho Chi Minh City so as to preventovercrowding and cross-infection at concentrated quarantine sites.

In a dispatch sent on June27, the MoH asked the municipal People’s Committee to instruct communal-leveladministrations to permit home quarantine only after examining and confirmingthat houses of those F1s meet conditions for home quarantine; strictly manageand monitor the organisation of home quarantine; and carry out healthmonitoring of those F1s during and after the isolation period.

In order to be eligible forhome quarantine, houses must stand separately from others and warning signs shouldbe put in front of the houses. The room for the quarantined person must beseparate from the family’s common spaces and does not share the centralair-conditioning system, and be disinfected daily.

Those under home isolationmust strictly adhere to relevant quarantine rules, including not leaving theisolation rooms during the quarantine period, not meeting other people or pets;installing and turning on the Vietnam Health Declaration or Bluezone apps; andmaking health declaration, conducting self-health monitoring, and updating informationon the apps.

The elderly and persons withunderlying health conditions needing medical care must not stay at the samehouses with those under home isolation.

Besides, other people sharingthe same houses must not directly contact the F1s. They should also carry outself-health monitoring and minimise leaving the house.

Medical workers need tocollect information and examine the health condition of the F1s and theircarers every day.

HCM City is witnessingcomplex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 28 morning, it hadrecorded 3,280 infection cases in the fourth outbreak that began in late April./.
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