What is Institutional Quarantine, how different is it from Home Quarantine, and what are the new guidelines on it?

Institutional Quarantine Guidelines: A certain place is fixed in the institutional quarantine where corona suspects or corona patients are kept. This procedure is done so that they can stay away from normal people and prevent the spread of infection.

New guidelines have been issued regarding Quarantine after the increasing threat of new variant Omicron of Coronavirus worldwide . Especially states like Maharashtra, where a large number of people come from abroad, are taking precautions in this matter. Maharashtra to those who come from countries with 6 "ultra-risk 'Thursday seven days of institutional quarantine  will be required to stay in (Institutional Quarantine). Maharashtra has issued this strict guideline for those coming from South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. After the knock of Omicron, all the states are issuing these guidelines at their own level. In this context, a guideline has also been decided at the national level.

Before knowing these guidelines, understand what is institutional quarantine and how different it is from home quarantine.

Difference between institutional quarantine and home quarantine

The word Quarantine was heard a lot between the first, second wave of the Corona period and now the threat of Omicron. In this also two different categories were heard – Institutional Quarantine and Home Quarantine. You must have come to know that quarantine only means segregation. The patient is kept isolated from others, so that virus infection can be prevented.

A certain place is fixed in the institutional quarantine where corona suspects or corona patients are kept. This process is adopted so that they can stay away from the common people and prevent the spread of infection. In this, the victim is kept away from the house in a place where all the facilities related to the treatment of corona are available. But the victim cannot socialize with any other person during the quarantine period. It is like a hospital or caretaking centre. During Kovid, such Institution Quarantine Centers were built across the country.

Whereas in home quarantine, the corona victim remains at home. But for this as much as possible, he is given a separate corner, room in the house, where he can live separately. The patient does not get hospital-like facilities when he is quarantined at home, but he is advised to be in constant touch with the doctor. Whoever lives in home quarantine should not come out of his room and follow the quarantine rules completely, so that no other member of the house has to face this infectious disease.

New guidelines

*After Omicron, under the new guideline, all passengers will have to log on to the Air Suvidha portal and give complete information about their travel and location for the last 14 days.

*The RTPCR report will have to be uploaded at least 72 hours before the time of travel. Travel will be possible only in the event of this report being negative.

*Those who are coming from high risk countries under Omicron will be tested at the airport itself. They will have to wait at the airport till the test report comes. Even if the report comes negative, they will have to stay in home isolation. Their samples will also be sent for genome sequencing to be examined by Omicron.

*Passengers will also have to undergo thermal screening. There will be a chance to travel only if there are no symptoms of the epidemic.

*On showing symptoms of corona in the flight, the passenger will be isolated in the flight itself.

*If someone shows symptoms of corona during home quarantine, then he will have to give information to the health center located near him or the national.