Quarantine can go beyond 14 days: HC

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has said the period of home quarantine linked to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cannot be limited to 14 days, with there being no certainty over the virulence of the pathogen, even as it added that a person who doesn’t display symptoms and hasn’t tested positive can ask authorities for an explanation over being kept in quarantine beyond two weeks.

The order came after a petition was filed by a person who was put in quarantine from midnight of March 24-25, when he first had contact with a delivery person who tested positive, till April 28 – about 30 days. The petition said the man did not test positive for the disease within 14 days from being quarantined.

Justice C Hari Shankar said that so far, there was no certainty of opinion regarding the extent of the virulence of the virus, its period of gestation, the time taken for symptoms, or how long a person remains a potential source of infection. HTC