Containment, Control and Prevention of COVID-19 – Guidelines for Home isolation

ORDER:

World Health Organization (WHO) has declared recent Novel Corona

Virus Disease (COVID-19) affecting all the regions of the world as Pandemic.

In this context, Government of Andhra Pradesh has taken several measures

to strengthen the surveillance for Containment, Control and Prevention of

COVID-19 including declaring a “Lock down”.

2. Where Government is satisfied that, any foreign returnee or his/her

contact or symptomatic person showing COVID-19 symptoms like fever, dry

cough, sore throat and/or breathlessness should follow home isolation to

prevent spread of COVID-19 in community or as advised by a Medical

Officer.

3. The following guidelines are issued for home isolation to be followed by

all foreign returnees or his/her contact or any symptomatic person showing

COVID-19 symptoms:

I. Guidelines for Home Isolation:

Home Isolation is applicable to all foreign returnees or their contacts or

symptomatic showing COVID-19 symptoms like fever, dry cough, sore throat

and/or breathlessness.

II. Definition of foreign returnee:

Any persons coming from outside India on or after 10th Feb. 2020 or

any COVID-19 affected areas where local and community transmission is

evident or a person coming from focal clusters arising from a travel

related/unrelated case where cluster containment strategy is adopted.

III. Definition of a Contact:

1. A contact is defined as a healthy person that has been in such

association with an infected person or a contaminated environment

as to have

Containment, Control and Prevention of COVID-19 – Guidelines for Home isolation – Orders