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The Kerala health department is set to release updated guidelines for preventing and treating Mpox following the state's first confirmed case of the new strain. A meeting of the State Level Rapid Response Team (RRT) assessed the situation, and Health Minister Veena George stated that necessary actions will be taken if cases rise.
 

As per the new guideline, the mandatory 72-hour report of RT-PCR is not required anymore and the travellers can show their Full Vaccination Certificate. According to the Union Health Ministry, the new recommendations will go into effect on Monday, February 14.

The stations or formations which have a positivity rate between 2-5 per cent, the personnel returning from leave will have to be quarantined for 7 days and tested before release and patients will have to consult the doctors on phone or video call.

The police order states that any person contravening the order shall be liable for punishment under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code as well as provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act Pandemic Act and the Disaster Management Act.

The Health Ministry also shared a list of “high risk” countries from where travellers would need to follow additional measures on arrival in India, including post-arrival testing (Countries at-risk).
 

The Centre will allocate vaccine doses to state/UTs based on criteria such as population, disease burden and the progress of vaccination. Wastage of vaccine will affect the allocation to states/UTs negatively, it said.
 

Patients under home isolation will stand discharged after at least 10 days have passed from the onset of the symptoms (or from the date of sampling for asymptomatic cases) and no fever for three days.
 

With the number of Coronavirus cases surging in Maharashtra, the state government has announced new guidelines on Monday night and extended restrictions imposed in containment zones till March 31.

According to the guidelines, only those who are asymptomatic or mild symptomatic shall be allowed to be in-home care.