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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) is reviewing the rule on the period of prophylactic isolation, and the quarantine for people who were close to being infected with the new coronavirus can no longer be 14 days.
“Science at this point is beginning to give indications on what are the maximum days, to what extent it is probable that people incubate the virus, they can be infected and they can transmit it,” said the director general of Health, at the press conference of updated information on the covid-19 pandemic.
Graça Freitas added that she begins to realize that, from the tenth day, “the probability that someone who has not yet been infected will become infected is small.”
The official argued that it is based on this science that DGS is reviewing international documentation, analyzing evidence in other countries and consulting experts and specialists.
“We are working on a possible new recommendation that will obviously only be made if we have sufficient confidence in the measure that we are promoting,” he said, highlighting that the DGS is reviewing this standard and when there is consensus among experts will issue a new guide on the period of incubation in case of a high-risk contact, that is, a person close to someone infected with covid-19 and therefore “leave their isolation before”.
Graça Freitas argued that these are “very sensitive” issues and the DGS has based the guidelines on evidence and knowledge.
The Director General of Health stated that the period of prophylactic isolation of infected people was reduced considering that 10 days after the onset of symptoms or a positive test, the patient has been discharged as long as he presents “a clear improvement of his clinical state ”.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 43 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 2,343 people died due to 121,133 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
