How to self-isolate at home

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

If you or someone in your household develop flu-like symptoms, a fever or a persistent cough, you should self-isolate and not leave your house for any reason for at least 14 days from the onset of symptoms, until symptom-free and fever-free for 72 hours without the use of fever-lowering medications. If you have received a negative test result for COVID-19 during this period and no other members of your household have developed symptoms, all should be well.

However, if you did test positive for COVID-19 and were instructed to self-isolate at home, you could still infect others after you stop feeling sick, so the latest recommendation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is that you remain in self-isolation for another 14 days after symptoms disappear. All other members of your household must also self-isolate and, if any of them become unwell during the first person’s 14 days of isolation, the same measures will have to be followed for another 14-day period. You have to test negative for COVID-19 twice in a row, 24 hours apart, to confirm that you are no longer contagious before resuming your normal routine.

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