CAT/C/70/2 (h) effective; Ensure that the existing complaints mechanisms remain functioning and (i) Respect the minimum requirements for daily outdoor exercise, while also taking account of the measures necessary to tackle the current pandemic; (j) Ensure that sufficient facilities and supplies are provided free of charge to all who remain in detention, in order to allow detainees the same level of personal hygiene as is to be followed by the population as a whole; (k) Provide sufficient compensatory alternative methods, where visiting regimes are restricted for health-related reasons, for detainees to maintain contact with families and the outside world, including telephone, Internet and email, video communication and other appropriate electronic means. Such methods of contact should be both facilitated and encouraged, as well as frequent and provided free of charge; (l) Enable family members or relatives to continue to provide food and other supplies for the detainees, in accordance with local practices and with due respect for necessary protective measures; (m) Accommodate those who are a greatest risk within the remaining detained populations in ways that reflect that enhanced risk, while fully respecting their rights within the detention setting; (n) Prevent the use of medical isolation taking the form of disciplinary solitary confinement; medical isolation must be on the basis of an independent medical evaluation, proportionate, limited in time and subject to procedural safeguards; (o) Provide medical care to detainees who are in need of it, outside of the detention facility, whenever possible; (p) Ensure that fundamental safeguards against ill-treatment, including the right of access to independent medical advice, the right to legal assistance and the right to ensure that third parties are notified of detention, remain available and operable, restrictions on access notwithstanding; (q) Ensure that all detainees and staff receive reliable, accurate and up-to-date information concerning all measures being taken, their duration and the reasons for them; (r) Ensure that appropriate measures are taken to protect the health of staff and personnel working in detention facilities, including health-care staff, and that they are properly equipped and supported while undertaking their duties; (s) Make available appropriate psychological support to all detainees and staff who are affected by these measures; (t) Ensure that, if applicable, all the above considerations are taken into account with regard to patients who are involuntarily admitted to psychiatric hospitals. III. Measures to be taken by authorities in respect of those in official places of quarantine 10. The Subcommittee has already issued advice on the situation of those held in quarantine (CAT/OP/9). To that advice, the Subcommittee would further add that: (a) Those individuals who are being temporarily held in quarantine are to be treated at all times as free agents, except for the limitations necessarily placed upon them in accordance with the law and on the basis of scientific evidence for quarantine purposes; (b) Those being temporarily held in quarantine are not to be viewed or treated as if they were detainees; (c) Quarantine facilities should be of a sufficient size and have sufficient facilities to permit internal freedom of movement and a range of purposive activities; 13