A woman has sample taken for COVID-19 testing in Binh Tan district of HCM City (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The
(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.
In a dispatch sent on June
27, the MoH asked the municipal People’s Committee to instruct communal-level
administrations to permit home quarantine only after examining and confirming
that houses of those F1s meet conditions for home quarantine; strictly manage
and monitor the organisation of ; and carry out health
monitoring of those F1s during and after the isolation period.
In order to be eligible for
home quarantine, houses must stand separately from others and warning signs should
be put in front of the houses. The room for the quarantined person must be
separate from the family’s common spaces and does not share the central
air-conditioning system, and be disinfected daily.
Those under
must strictly adhere to relevant quarantine rules, including not leaving the
isolation rooms during the quarantine period, not meeting other people or pets;
installing and turning on the Vietnam Health Declaration or Bluezone apps; and
making health declaration, conducting self-health monitoring, and updating information
on the apps.
The elderly and persons with
underlying health conditions needing medical care must not stay at the same
houses with those under home isolation.
Besides, other people sharing
the same houses must not directly contact the F1s. They should also carry out
self-health monitoring and minimise leaving the house.
Medical workers need to
collect information and examine the health condition of the F1s and their
carers every day.
HCM City is witnessing
complex developments of the pandemic. As of June 28 morning, it had
recorded 3,280 infection cases in the fourth outbreak that began in late April./.
Source: VietnamPlus
