5-day institutional quarantine mandatory for all COVID-19 patients in Delhi

New Delhi, June 19: The Union home ministry on Friday makes five-day mandatory institutional quarantine for people testing positive for COVID-19.

According to the reports, anyone testing positive for Covid-19, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, will be placed in institutional quarantine for a period of five days.

This is the home ministry's second major directive on the coronavirus pandemic in the national capital.

Earlier on Friday, a high-powered committee, set up by home minister Amit Shah, recommended fixing the cost of a Covid-19 isolation bed in Delhi's private hospitals in the range of Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 and an ICU bed with ventilator at Rs 15,000-Rs 18,000 per day.

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