The government is now discouraging people with mild cases of COVID-19 or infected but showing no symptoms from self-confinement due to the risk of spreading the coronavirus. | JMAurelioINQ
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, cochair of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, announced the policy shift on Sunday, citing the dangers of self-isolation in mild and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19.“We are now discouraging home quarantine. The danger of home quarantine is contracting the disease.
There is a bigger danger that the disease will spread among family members,” Nograles said in a radio interview.Earlier, the Department of Health , trying to ease pressure on the country’s health-care system, said mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases could self-isolate, but they should have their own room, bathroom, and have no contact with members of their families.
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