Designed for short-term physician-and-caregiver
directed care to help stable COVID-19 patients recover illness through provision of basic supportive management and psychosocial support, monitoring of warning signs of COVID-19 progression and prevention of further illness and hospital stay. Home quarantine shall be allowed for suspect, probable, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 who are either asymptomatic or with mild symptoms only and controlled comorbidities, provided that the following requirements are met:
a. Infrastructure
- Line of communication for family and health workers
- Electricity, portable water, cooking source
- Bathroom with toilet and sink, if possible, separate from family (if none, disinfect bathroom after use)
- Solid waste and sewage disposal
- Well- ventilated room
b. Accommodations
- Separate bedroom - no vulnerable person in the household
- Accessible bathroom in the residence
c. Resource for patient care and support
- Primary caregiver who will remain in the residence (not high risk for complications and educated on proper precautions)
- Medications for pre-existing conditions, as needed
- Digital thermometer (disinfected before and after use) and pulse oximeter
- Meal preparation
- Masks, tissues, hand hygiene products
- Household cleaning products