Amid a huge sudden spike in the coronavirus and Omicron cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday, January 3, issued fresh guidelines for sealing buildings in Mumbai, where multiple patients will be detected with the infection.
The new guidelines will come into effect from today, January 4. This development comes as nearly 88 per cent of the cases being detected from high-rises, while slums hardly reporting cases in big numbers, reports stated.
Releasing a statement, the BMC notified that the patient and contacts shall strictly follow the current guidelines of home isolation and hygiene etiquettes while in-home quarantine.
The civic body said that the whole building or a wing of a building/complex shall be sealed if more than 20% of the occupied flats in the building or wing have COVID-19 patients.
Patient/s shall be isolated for at least 10 days from onset of symptoms/testing (in case of asymptomatic patients) and no fever for continuous three days, it said.
High-risk contacts shall be home quarantined for seven days. They shall be tested on the fifth to seventh day or immediately if they turn symptomatic and further protocols shall be followed based on their test results.
Desealing decision of the building or wing could be taken at the respective ward level, said the BMC circular.
The municipal corporation also said that due care should be taken by the building managing committee to ensure that supplies or food, medicine and essentials to the families who are in quarantine.
Earlier, the BMC’s protocol was to seal buildings with five or more positive cases and floors if cases were fewer than five. During the peak of the first and second wave, police were also stationed at times outside sealed buildings to restrict any exit or entry.
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