SA could soon drop quarantining Covid-19 contacts as this doesn't serve its purpose, says MAC

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The 10-day requirement to quarantine when you have come into contact with a Covid-19 case, and the subsequent contact tracing, could soon become a thing of the past if health minister Joe Phaahla approves the proposal to discontinue these prerequisites.

In an advisory that’s dated December 16 and signed by the co-chairs of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, Prof Kholeka Mlisana and Prof Marian Jacobs propose that quarantining be discontinued with immediate effect for contacts of cases of Covid-19 as quarantining contacts of cases no longer serves a public health role.

“Identifying contacts of Covid-19 cases contact tracing equally serves very little role. In addition, contact tracing is impractical once the Covid-19 caseload rises due to the large number of contacts that have to be identified for each case, and is extremely burdensome in its use of human and financial resources,” the statement which has been addressed to Phaahla and acting director-general for health Nicholas Crisp.

Crisp, who is yet to get feedback from Phaahla about the contents of the document, said he was not sure if the advisory would be implemented as it was a ‘difficult discussion”.

 

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Is anyone still actually doing this besides those leeches that want 10 days off work?

Worked so well for Alberta...🤦‍♂️

Finally we are getting out of this madness of wasting taxpayers money

I absolutely agree with this.

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