Doctors at public hospitals will evaluate incoming Covid patients and allow those with no obvious symptoms or other illnesses to opt for home quarantine, said Lau Ka-hin, Hospital Authority's chief manager for quality and standards. The chief manager said patients could choose to undergo quarantine at home instead in hospital wards if they were asymptomatic or showed no apparent symptoms from their infection. Those who display obvious symptoms like breathlessness and coughing will require hospitalization, he said. He said the public should understand that some of the Covid deaths may not be entirely related to their infection. Separately, Lau defended Authority’s new move in allowing hospital workers who are Covid close contacts to resume duty after they obtained a negative RAT result.

Source: The Standard November 11, 2022 17:04 UTC