The State administration has made more additions to provisions enabling home isolation for Covid-19 patients. According to the communication issued by the health secretary Amit Singh Negi to all the district magistrates and chief medical officers, pregnant women without any comorbidities and Covid positive women who have given birth to a healthy child, are completely healthy and have been discharged normally from the hospital can also be kept in home isolation.
Earlier, the state had allowed home isolation for children aged below 10 years and senior citizens aged above 60 years, who are not suffering from any other illness.