According to the guidelines, patients with mild ailments would have to stay at home isolations for maximum seven days soon after they are tested positive. They won’t require for further tests if they have no fever for three days successively during the week-long isolation period.
Meanwhile, amid complaints of mass violations of Covid curbs at weddings and parties, Punjab CM on Friday ordered restriction of 100 on indoor and 250 on outdoor gatherings in the state.
Actor Arjun Kapoor announced testing Covid-19 positive earlier on Sunday, and his good friend Malaika Arora has confirmed later the same day that she too is infected with the virus. Malaika added that she is currently under home quarantine.
According to the Capt Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government’s new guidelines regarding medical fitness for home isolation of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients and those patients aged more than 60 or with co-morbidities and pregnant women will be offered the opportunity to give undertaking at the time of sampling regarding availability of the home isolation facility at their houses in case they turn out to be positive for Covid-19.
The collaborative study conducted jointly by CSIR institutions of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) revealed a conservative estimate of the number of active cases shedding the virus may be around 2.6 lakh.
He assured migrant workers of him being in contact with the central government over their issue and to come out with a possible solution soon.
