South Africa Reinstates Covid Contact Tracing, Quarantine Requirements
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The health department had issued a circular on December 23 instructing all provincial authorities to stop contact tracing and some quarantine conditions.
South Africa on Wednesday brought back the requirements of contact tracing and quarantine under certain circumstances amid rising Covid-19 cases, less than a week after it announced to do away with them.
The health department had issued a circular on December 23 instructing all provincial authorities to stop contact tracing and some quarantine conditions.
The Department said it has been inundated with media, stakeholders and public enquiries and comments since the release of the revised Protocols on Contact Tracing, Quarantine and Isolation that it had issued.
The decision then was that asymptomatic individuals who had come into contact with a Covid-19 case no longer had to isolate, but should monitor any symptoms for five to seven days and avoid attending large gatherings.
