Additional guidelines for quarantine of returnees from abroad / contacts / isolation of suspect or confirmed cases in private facilities

Scope

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued guidelines for home quarantine of contacts

and home isolation of patients who have requisite accommodation at home for self-isolation

as available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/Guidelinesforhomequarantine.pdf.

There are large number of facilities such as hotels, service apartments, lodges which remain

unoccupied due to impact of COVID-19 on travel and tourism. There are also instances

where people who don’t have requisite space at home may opt for such facilities. This is

likely to reduce the pressure on the family, give comfort to the person, and protect the family

members and immediate neighborhood.

Standard Operating Procedure

These standard operating procedures are applicable both for facility quarantine/ facility

isolation in hotels, service apartments, lodges etc. unless and otherwise stated categorically.

The State/UT government opting for this model will ensure that:

1. The quarantine and isolation facility will not co-exist and the facility owner will have

a choice to dedicate the facility for either of the two.

2. These facilities will offer single room on paid basis to contacts/cases with attached

washrooms.

3. The tariff for the accommodation and services shall be fixed by the facility in

consultation with the state government and widely publicized.

4. The facility dedicated for isolation will follow the norms established for COVID Care

Centre as available at -

https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/FinalGuidanceonMangaementofCovidcasesversion2.pdf

5. The cases shall only be kept in an isolation facility, if the cases are clinically assessed

to be pre-symptomatic or very mild.

6. Such facility that opts for isolation will have separate earmarked areas for keeping

suspect cases and confirmed cases and will ensure no inter-mingling of these two

categories.

7. The contact/patient opting for such quarantine/isolation facility will give an

undertaking as is available