Quarantine, buffers and isolation: the indications of the Cts

Published on: 11/10/2020 11:09 PM

Reduced quarantine, a single negative swab to leave and ‘freedom’ for asymptomatic still positive, after 21 days. The Scientific Technical Committee redesigns the measures to manage the Covid situation in Italy. These are the first indications awaiting Monday’s meeting.

QUARANTINE – During today’s CTS we have oriented ourselves towards a reduction of quarantine from 14 to 10 days me just a buffer in the output. “The contacts of the positive cases must remain in quarantine. Until yesterday it was a quarantine of 14 days,” said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, to ‘Che tempo che fa’. “The CTS, also to lighten the load that is developing in our society, has come to decide for a 10-day quarantine as Germany had already done for a few weeks, based on scientific evidence according to which from the tenth day then the risk is very low. ” For those who had had close contacts with positive subjects, the measure that emerged in the current CTS, therefore, provides for ten days of fiduciary isolation and a rapid or molecular antigenic buffer.

HISPITOS FOR BASIC DOCTORS AND PEDIATRICS – The Cts, as we learn, has given an indication of why also GPs and pediatricians can make swabs. In particular, doctors and pediatricians, if they agree, will be able to make molecular and antigenic swabs to reduce queues at the drive-in. ” To achieve the strategic objective linked to the sustainability of the system for diagnosing cases of positivity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the CTS also considers it necessary to involve general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice for the precious and fundamental contribution that they can ensure in the execution of swabs, in order to fundamentally support the health system in the country. ” The CTS ”, in line with international guidelines and adopting the principle of maximum caution, underlines the need to update the diagnostic route for the identification of positive cases as well as the timely return to the social context of the diagnosed subjects. Likewise, the CTS has redefined the criteria for fiduciary isolation from close contacts of confirmed positive cases for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. ”

ASYMPTOMATIC ‘FREE’ AFTER 21 DAYS ALTHOUGH POSITIVE – Asymptomatic patients who continue without becoming negative, establishes the Cts in a measure approved today, will still end the quarantine period after 21 days. “In asymptomatic cases the isolation is interrupted in any case on the 21st since the available evidence does not document any case of the presence of a replication competent virus”, they explain.