These are the quarantine guidelines for people returning from abroad

• People with requisite facility can opt for home isolation
• However, those who don’t have requisite space at home can opt for quarantine and isolation facilities in hotels and lodges.
  
• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on May 8 issued specific guidelines for quarantine of Indian returning from foreign countries.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on May 8 issued specific guidelines for quarantine of Indian returning from foreign countries in private facilities like hotels, service apartments and lodges.

India has begun the world’s largest repatriation mission to bring as many as 1.5 million citizens home in the next few weeks today. In the first phase of repatriation, 15,000 Indian will return from 12 countries. All these passengers shall be kept under institutional quarantine for a minimum period of 14 days.

People having requisite facility can opt for home isolation However, those who don’t have requisite space at home can opt for quarantine and isolation facilities in hotels and lodges. The travellers will have to pay for these.

Here are the guidelines:

• 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.
  
• People availing the facility will be offered a single room with an attached bathroom on a paid basis.
  
• The tariff for the accommodation and services shall be fixed by the facility in consultation with the state government and widely publicised.
  
• These facilities will have to follow the all the norms established for COVID Care centre.
  
• Only clinically assessed cases with pre-symptomatic or very mild symptoms will be kept in an isolation facility.
  
• These facilities will have to keep suspected cases and confirmed cases separately.
  
• The facility shall ensure in-house availability of a trained doctor and a nurse on 24X7 basis.
  
• The doctor will monitor the contacts and cases in both quarantine and isolation facilities once a day on basic parameters of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and pulse oxymetry and keep a record of the same.
  
• The doctor will report to the District Surveillance Officer regarding the list of cases and contacts admitted to such facility and their health status.
  
• The facility should approach an ICMR-approved laboratory for testing samples.
  
• No visitors will be allowed in the facility.
  
• The facility shall provide Wifi and ensure people have downloaded the Aarogya Setu app on their mobile phone.
  
• The staff at the quarantine facility should be trained to call 108 Ambulance or any other Ambulance service.
  
• All the linens towels and rooms will be disinfected using the practises suggested by Health Ministry.
  
• Only room services will be allowed to provide food.
  
• The facility owner will give an undertaking to follow the above SOP and to have adequate manpower including the above mentioned health workers as per the prescribed protocol.
• Facility should ensure that the clear instructions for the contacts/cases are provided at the time of check-in as per health ministry guidelines.
  
• The discharge of the contacts and cases from the facility will be in accordance with the discharge policy
  

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