The Centre has written to the States to follow the guidelines for effective Home Isolation. The Health Ministry had issued revised guidelines regarding Home Isolation on the 10th of last month. The Ministry said, as per the guidelines, very mild and pre-symptomatic COVID-19 patients can opt for home isolation provided the patient has a room to himself or herself with toilet facility and has an adult attendant or caregiver. Also, the patient shall agree to monitor his or her health and regularly inform the health status to the District Surveillance Officer for further follow up by the surveillance teams.

The Ministry said, an important clause of the revised guidelines is that the treating doctor is satisfied with the patient opting for home isolation based on medical assessment and assessment of his or her residential accommodation. In addition, the patient will fill in an undertaking on self-isolation and shall follow home quarantine guidelines. The Ministry said that all such cases of home isolation will also be further monitored by teams of well-oriented doctors on a regular basis, their discharge should follow the required guidelines and shall be reported as per norms.

The Ministry some instances have been noticed wherein home isolation is allowed in a routine manner in certain States, and clauses of the revised guidelines are not being followed in letter and spirit.

It urged the States to ensure strict implementation of the Guidelines on Home Isolation at the field level to effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh today received COVID feedback from private medical practitioners, from across the country. In over one-and-half hour-long Webinar, leading physicians and specialists from various streams of medical science offered their inputs from different Indian cities including Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna and Kota.

Presiding over the meeting, Dr. Jitendra Singh complimented the medical fraternity of the country for having commendably lived up to the occasion and successfully fought the war against Corona. He said the medical fraternity as well as the health infrastructure of India had proved to the world during this time of its inherent potential and capacity to reorient itself at short notice and successfully discharge its responsibilities to the community.

Dr. A Muruganathan, who moderated the Webinar, spoke about the need to popularize the use of AarogyaSetu and focus on Indian models of prevention and subion based health insurance practiced in some of the hospitals, particularly in South India.