Quarantine at home during coronavirus: 10 rules how to behave

How to behave in quarantine with coronavirus

It is worth distinguishing between two concepts – self-isolation and quarantine. Self-isolation is our voluntary desire to maintain our health and reduce the risk of infection, thereby reducing the burden on medical institutions. A way to take care of yourself and others.

Quarantine applies to those who have returned from a trip or business trip from countries that are unfavorable for coronavirus infection. Medical workers are officially quarantined.

If you are in quarantine, know:

1. During quarantine, you cannot leave your home, even to receive a package or buy groceries.
2. If possible, each of the residents of the apartment should be in a separate room.
3. It is necessary to use separate dishes, personal hygiene products, linen and towels.
4. Products are recommended to be ordered online or with the help of volunteers who help those who are in quarantine.
5. Use personal protective equipment and disinfectants (mask, alcohol wipes).
6. It is important to regularly ventilate the room and carry out wet cleaning.
7. You can’t go outside, even to throw out the trash. How to be? Invite volunteers, it could be someone you know, for example.
8. Everyone who is in quarantine is being monitored at home. Moscow has organized automatic monitoring of patients with confirmed coronavirus infection using a special mobile application that can be installed on a voluntary basis.
9. On the 10th day of quarantine, doctors do a second PCR test. If it is negative, the sick leave is closed and the quarantine ends automatically.

When is a healthy person quarantined?

Those who have been in contact with those infected with COVID-19 no longer need to go into quarantine if they do not have symptoms. The new resolution of the chief sanitary doctor states that the clause on mandatory self-isolation after contact with the sick has become invalid.

• If he was in contact with a coronavirus patient. But at the same time, those who have completed a full course of vaccination or have been ill with coronavirus over the past six months (in the absence of symptoms of the disease) do not apply.
• If arrived from South African countries. But this also does not apply to those who completed a full course of vaccination within a year or who had coronavirus less than 6 months ago.

How is coronavirus quarantine going?

For the duration of the quarantine, a person stays at home, excluding all contact with the external environment. A family can go through quarantine together if, for example, one of the family members came from a country with a high prevalence of coronavirus infection, or if the whole family was abroad. On the 10th day of quarantine, doctors select material for testing for COVID-19 (a swab from the nose or oropharynx). A negative result means that you can return to your usual way of life.

Do I need to write a sick leave for coronavirus?

Sick leave must be written. While you are in quarantine at home, a sick leave sheet is opened for you.

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