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