• If it is not possible to house the detainee in medical isolation, then detainees
with similar risk factors and exposures may be housed together while they
undergo quarantine (WHO, 2020).
Quarentine
(asymptomatic exposed
persons)
• Monitoring to be done by prison healthcare or custodial staff with regular visits
to see if symptoms have developed (WHO,2020).
PT; BR163; Vic, AU
BR; SK; WA, AU
• Patient to wear a medical face mask while being transferred to an isolation
room (WHO, 2020).
• During quarantine, the isolated person should be under medical observation at
least twice a day, including taking body temperature and checking for
symptoms of COVID-19 infection (WHO, 2020).
• All staff and people in prisons and other places of detention to stay home when
ill (WHO, 2020).
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USA;
NZ; SE; UY; Vic, AU;XK
Preventive Isolation of inmates suffering from chronic illnesses and inmates older than 60 years old (ICPA: Departamento Penitenciario Nacional, 2020).
Constant monitoring of juvenile offender's body temperature in Juvenile Correction Centre (ARP: Sistema Penitenciario Guatemalteco, 2020).
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