What is medical isolation? What types of isolation are there?

Medical isolation means the separation of persons suffering from an infectious disease, a person suspected of having an infectious disease, a carrier of an infectious pathogen or an object capable of carrying an infectious disease agent in order to limit the spread of disease.

There are currently two types of isolation: concentrated isolation and medical isolation at home and residence (private houses, apartments, dormitories, dormitories, schools, industrial parks, factories , hotel rooms, motels, inns and guest rooms of agencies and units).

Quarantine at home, place of residence is the person in close contact with a close contact with a defined case of illness, a close contact with the case of concentrated isolation with negative results with Covid- 19.

Persons needing to be concentrated in isolation are those who have returned or traveled through an epidemic area of ​​the country or territory where Covid-19 is affected.

Subjects of medical isolation at home

People who do not have symptoms of COVID-19 infection (cough, fever, shortness of breath) and have one of the following factors:

• Living in the same house or place of residence with a known case or suspected case during a disease period;
• Working together with a defined case or a suspected case during a period of illness;
• Travel with a tourist group, working group or play group with a specific case or a suspected case during a period of illness;
• Close contact within 2 meters of a confirmed case or suspected pediatric illness in any situation;
• Sit in the same row or in front of the two rows of seats on the same train / train / plane with a known or suspected illness;
• Foreigners who enter Vietnam from China or have been to China (except for Hubei province) within 14 days of entry.

Time isolation at home

Maximum of 14 days of isolation, the number of specific days of isolation is counted from the date of the last exposure with the identified case of the disease or the suspected case or from the date of entry into Vietnam.

When a suspect person is diagnosed with no exclusion, the isolated person concerned will end the isolation.

People need concentrated isolation

The guidelines stipulate that the subjects needing to be concentrated in isolation are: People returning to or going through an epidemic area of ​​the country or territory where Covid-19 epidemic is affected (according to information of the Ministry of Health); people in close contact with cases identified with Covid-19 in cases beyond the ability of receiving facilities of medical facilities; Other subjects under the direction of the Prime Minister or the National Steering Committee on Covid-19 disease prevention and control and depending on the specific situation of the epidemic, the Ministry of Health continues to have further instructions.

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