COVID-19: DHA urges close contacts to complete 10-day quarantine

The Dubai Health Authority( DHA) has urged all close contacts of COVID-19 infected individuals to quarantine for 10 days.

Anyone having spent more than 15 minutes with the confirmed COVID-19 case without physical distancing are eligible for the quarantine.

If any symptoms appear during the quarantine period, close contacts must get a PCR test done, authority added.

The DHA also highlighted 10 practices close contacts must avoid during quarantine which include:

• Not completing the 10-day quarantine period
• Not disclosing that you’re a close
•  Getting in close contact with others
• Allowing visitors to your home
• Sharing items, rooms or the toilet with others
• Sharing the household with high-risk individuals
• Leaving home, even if you have to buy essentials 
• Getting the vaccine while you are in the quarantine period
• Going for any medical appointment or procedure
•  Ignoring precautionary measures