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Their quarantine, self-isolation, and testing rules will be just as onerous as New Cookland’s.
We will all fear that a false positive test result will land us in an unnecessary quarantine for 15 days.
It clamped down on all travel and movement in public; quickly implemented online systems to track individuals and enforce quarantine orders; and tested extensively and monitored massively for symptoms.
They can do this in four ways during the two weeks while infectious: keep their physical distance; wear face masks; stay at home and away from others; and remain in a public quarantine if the home is not safe.
The government has quickly re-introduced quarantine restrictions for travelers from countries with infection spikes, and is enforcing new containment measures in towns and regions that appeared to be letting outbreaks get out of hand.
In some countries, even counter-terrorism tools based on sensitive personal surveillance data from the entire population have been used, which has led to thousands of healthy people mistakenly being put under quarantine.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell can’t reopen factories shuttered by quarantine, whatever US President Donald Trump may think.
It owes its success to a combination of transparent quarantine and treatment measures and a comprehensive $120 billion fiscal stimulus package.
How (Not) to Fight COVID-19MELBOURNE/TUCSON – When COVID-19 first appeared, strict quarantine requirements and short, tight lockdowns would have been a small price to pay to keep it at bay.
Contact tracing, whether conducted manually or by app, recommends quarantine to the close contacts of those who test positive.
In the United States, rules issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that 15 minutes spent within six feet (1.8 meters) of a person during their infectious period warrants a 14-day quarantine.
There is nothing magic about 14 days of quarantine.
Your risk also falls (but not to zero) if you test negative, but countries where everyone in quarantine is tested are using the same fossilized 14-day rule as those that do not test.
If, instead, we let people leave quarantine when their risk drops below the threshold we use to decide who should enter it, we can achieve greater safety at lower cost to individuals and the economy.
The threshold for quarantine can depend on where you are.
There is a moral obligation to limit the harms from quarantine, as well as to stop the spread of a virus that will, unless effectively checked, cause hundreds of thousands more deaths and prolong lockdowns, with all the hardship that entails for billions of people.
Such outcomes become more likely if quarantine is recommended indiscriminately and compliance drops as a result.
And the area south of Milan, where Italy’s first COVID-19 cases were reported, is under quarantine.
Back then, the authorities isolated people with symptoms in lazarets (ships permanently at anchor and used for quarantine) on islands outside the city, and restricted the movements and interactions of healthy Venetians during a 40-day quarantine period.
By the time the central government had followed suit weeks later, Kerala had already deployed more than 30,000 health workers and placed tens of thousands of people in quarantine.
When Keralans under home quarantine reported that they had no one to bring them essential supplies, the police promptly delivered what they needed.
Finally, everyone identified has been subjected to a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Once the list of potential contacts is known, everyone on it receives a call, and those most at risk of having been infected are required – not asked – to quarantine themselves for 14 days.
Depending on the closeness of the contact, some are moved to a secure quarantine facility, whereas others may be permitted to remain in their homes.
My friend and his wife were then put into controlled quarantine, in a hotel that had been converted for the purpose.
Everyone receives a unique QR code showing their status – green if you’re clear of infection, yellow if you’ve been instructed to stay indoors, red if you are under quarantine.
If you’re roaming the streets and your QR code flashes red, you will immediately be moved back to quarantine, or else you may face fines or jail time.
Since late January, when Singapore reported its first case of COVID-19, more than 6,000 people have been identified through contract tracing and put into proactive isolation and quarantine.
Similarly, Singapore mobilized an inter-agency taskforce for extensive contact tracing, targeted community quarantine, and aggressive testing, while also covering the costs of screening and treatment.
In the three months since the beginning of the outbreak, local hospitals, research institutes, and universities have created reliable platforms to track COVID-19 quarantine cases, increase production of hand sanitizers, publish important clinical findings on the disease, and develop low-cost test kits for the virus that causes it.
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