According to the new guidelines, issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, a patient under home isolation will stand discharged after 7 days from testing positive.
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Last week, came the welcome decision of providing home isolation kits to those testing positive within an hour of their result. The Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka announced that five lakh kits will be procured and measures will be taken to see that they reach the doorstep of the infected within one hour of Covid-19 positive result. But if a high-risk steroid was a part of the kit, it definitely comes with a lot of risk and a heavy price to the patients. In their eagerness to score brownie points INC Karnataka has distributed Dexahim, a steroid as a part of their home isolation kit. Unless taken at the right time and under medical supervision, it can cause serious harm & complications in a Covid-19 patient. Withdraw this immediately, tweeted Prithvi Reddy, Aam Aadmi Party politico. While the political potshots continue, this is not the first time concerns have been raised over dexamethasone as a part of h
Covid-19: Centre issues new guidelines for rural areas, advises village-level surveillance
The health ministry took note that the infection was spreading gradually in rural areas. 2 hours ago An ASHA worker places a sign with preventive guidelines against the Covid-19 on the door of a migrant worker. | Xavier Galiana / AFP
The Centre on Sunday issued new coronavirus-related guidelines for peri-urban, rural and tribal areas, taking note of the “gradual ingress” of the infection in these regions.
The health ministry said that every village should undertake active surveillance of influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory infection periodically by Accredited Social Health Activist, or ASHA workers. Community health officers and auxiliary nurses at public health centres should be trained to perform Rapid Antigen Testing for Covid-19 infection, the ministry said.