Notices > Directions from the Department of Health to prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19

(1)	A person who tests positive for COVID-19 and is symptomatic with mild disease (not requiring hospitalisation for COVID-19) must be isolated for a period of at least 10 days from the date when the symptoms set in.

(2)	A person may de-isolate 10 days after the onset of symptoms, provided that the person no longer has fever and his or her other symptoms have improved.

(3)	A symptomatic person with moderate-severe disease must be isolated for 10 days after recovery when the person no longer requires supplemental oxygen and is clinically stable.

(4)	Contact tracing must be conducted for close contacts (any individual within two metres of an infected person for at least 15 minutes) of laboratory-confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients.

[Direction 21A(4) inserted by section 10 of Notice No. 1278, GG43954, dated 3 December 2020]

(5)	Remote communications for the purposes of case investigation and contact tracing must be utilised and in-person communication may be used after remote options have been exhausted.

[Direction 21A(5) inserted by section 10 of Notice No. 1278, GG43954, dated 3 December 2020]

(6)	Testing is recommended for all symptomatic close contacts of confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients.

[Direction 21A(6) inserted by section 10 of Notice No. 1278, GG43954, dated 3 December 2020]

[Direction 21A inserted by section 5 of Notice No. R. 868, GG43600, dated 7 August 2020]

Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)