Revising testing strategy

Who can get tested?

1. All symptomatic (influenza like illness (ILI) symptoms) individuals with a history of international travel in the last 14 days 2. All symptomatic (ILI symptoms) contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases 3. All symptomatic (ILI symptoms) health care workers / frontline workers involved in containment and mitigation of Covid-19 4. All patients of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) 5. Asymptomatic direct and high-risk contacts of a confirmed case to be tested once between day 5 and day 10 of coming into contact 6. All symptomatic ILI within hotspots/containment zones 7. All hospitalised patients who develop ILI symptoms 8. All symptomatic ILI among returnees and migrants, within 7 days of illness

9. No emergency procedure (including deliveries) should be delayed due to lack of tests

However, sample can be sent for testing if indicated as above (1-8), simultaneously.