Quarentine (asymptomatic exposed persons) • Any newly identified probable or confirmed cases to have their own contacts identified and monitored (WHO, 2020). • Staff members who have been close to foreigners in affected countries, have travelled abroad or has come into contact with a confirmed case must be placed under quarantine (EUROPRIS, 2020; ICPA, 2020). • Any detainee who has travelled from or lived in an identified high-risk area or had contact with a known case of COVID-19, to be placed in quarantine in single accommodation, for 14 days from the date of travel or last possible day of contact (WHO, 2020). 160 PT; BE; LT160 ; NZ BG; CO; CZ; LT; NSW, AU161; NZ; SK; Vic, AU; WA, AU162 PT; HK; SK Other inmates from the same cell or who had contacts with a potentially infected person should be isolated from the rest of the prison population to the extent that they have no direct contact with persons without protective measures until the results of a potentially infected person are available (ICPA: Prison Department of Lithuania, 2020). 161 Possibility to work from home will also be contemplated (ICPA: Corrective Services New South Wales,2020). 162 More precisely, and regardless of symptoms, all employees who have left or transited through mainland China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) on or after 1 February 2020 must isolate themselves until 14 days after leaving China; all employees who have left or transited through Iran on or after 1 March 2020 must isolate. themselves until 14 days after leaving Iran; all employees who have left or transited through the Republic of Korea on or after 5 March 2020 must isolate themselves until 14 days after leaving the Republic of Korea (ICPA: Department of Corrective Services Western Australia, 2020). 41

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