As India’s COVID-19 count surges beyond the 67,000-mark, Union Health Ministry on Monday issued a revised discharge policy for COIVD-19 patients under which a person having mild infection can be discharged after 10 days of symptom onset and if there is no fever for three days.
Here are the key takeaways from the Health Ministry’s media briefing today-
– Discharge policy has been changed because several countries have changed their policy from test-based strategy to symptom and time-based strategy. India has also changed it based on that.
– As per revised policy, mild/very mild/pre-symptomatic cases admitted to COVID-19 care facility can be discharged after 10 days of symptom onset and if there is no fever for 3 days.
– There is no need to test before discharge but home isolation should be advised after discharge for seven days.
– In last 24 hours, there were 4,213 new cases and 1,559 recoveries. Recovery rate is now at 31.15%.
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– The total number of recoveries is 20,917, while 44,029 people are under active medical supervision. Total number of cases is at 67,152.
– Around 4,000 Indians have been brought back by 23 flights under Vande Bharat Mission.
– Over 5 lakh migrant workers have been sent to their home states by 468 special trains. 101 special trains were run on Sunday.
– Aarogya Setu app has been downloaded in 9.8 crore smartphones so far. It will be available on Jio feature smartphones from Tuesday.
– Around 1.4 lakh Aarogya Setu app users have been alerted via Bluetooth contact tracing about the possible risk of infection due to proximity to infected patients.
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