{"id":1504,"date":"2021-01-27T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2021-01-27T03:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T03:49:00","slug":"latest-guidelines-on-management-of-close-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/27\/latest-guidelines-on-management-of-close-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Guidelines on Management of Close Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 14 January 2021, the Health Ministry released a new guideline on the management of close contact &#8211; people who were exposed to patients diagnosed with Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person who is exposed for 15 minutes or more, at a distance of less than 6 feet, to someone diagnosed with Covid-19 infection is generally regarded as a close contact. The risk is increased if one or both were without a face mask during that contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All close contact must get their rt-PCR swab done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A close contact can be asymptomatic or symptomatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If a close contact is asymptomatic, and has a negative rt-PCR swab test, and continues to be asymptomatic, self home quarantine ends after 10 days.<\/li><li>If a close contact is asymptomatic, and has a negative rt-PCR swab test, and then becomes symptomatic, this individual needs a second rt-PCR swab test and needs to be quarantined for 10 days, beginning from the first day of symptoms. <\/li><li>If a close contact is symptomatic, and has a negative rt-PCR swab test, and the symptoms cleared, then quarantine ends after day 10.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/closecontact.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1505\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 January 2021, the Health Ministry released a new guideline on the management of close contact &#8211; people who were exposed to patients diagnosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[80,94,213,270],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advisory","category-body","tag-close-contact","tag-covid-19","tag-management","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}