The State Government of Karnataka on 9th December 2021 has notified the discharge policy for Omicron variant recovered persons from hospitals and warned that any deviations from the discharge protocol would be viewed seriously.
In mild, moderate and severe cases (including immunocompromised HIV patients, transplant recipients, malignancy), the patient can be discharged after 10 days of symptom onset if there is no fever, breathlessness or any other symptom for the last three consecutive days before discharge without antipyretics (drug used to prevent or reduce fever).
Further, the Patients shall be discharged only after 2 negative RT-PCR reports 24 hours apart three days after complete clinical recovery. If the report is positive, the swab test shall be repeated after 48 hours.
At the time of discharge, the patients shall be advised to quarantine themselves at home and self-monitor their health for a further seven days. They have to be monitored by a district surveillance officer.
At home, the quarantine RT-PCR test is to be repeated on the 6th day of home quarantine. If negative, he/she can be released from home quarantine.
