Attached is a reference table of commonly used drugs! The home treatment guide for people infected with the new coronavirus is here

On December 8, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued the "Guidelines for Home Treatment of COVID-19 Infected Patients". Which COVID-19 infected patients can receive home treatment? How to protect themselves during home treatment? What conditions can be met to end home treatment? Let's highlight the key points↓↓↓

Who are the people infected with the new coronavirus?

Can I receive treatment at home?

Asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic infected persons without serious underlying diseases.

The infected persons whose underlying diseases are in a stable stage and who do not have serious dysfunction of important organs such as the heart, liver, lung, kidney, and brain, etc., and who do not need hospitalization.

Home treatment

What are the requirements for the living environment?

If conditions permit, people receiving home treatment should live in a relatively independent room in the home and use a separate bathroom as much as possible.

Home treatment

What supplies should be prepared?

Households should be equipped with thermometers (for infected people only), paper towels, masks, disposable gloves, disinfectants and other personal protective equipment and disinfection products and covered trash cans.

From primary medical and health institutions

What help can you get?

Grassroots medical and health institutions will make public consultation telephone numbers, inform precautions for home treatment, and include people receiving home treatment in grid management. A ledger will be established for special people receiving home treatment, such as empty-nest elderly people living alone, patients with underlying diseases, pregnant women, and hemodialysis patients, to provide necessary medical service guarantees.

People receiving home treatment should undergo antigen testing according to the instructions and, if necessary, ask primary medical and health institutions for guidance. Primary medical and health institutions should provide necessary symptomatic treatment and oral medication guidance to those in need.

When the community or primary medical and health institutions receive requests from people receiving home treatment for assistance in arranging medical treatment outside the home, they should promptly understand their main condition. The primary medical and health institutions should guide critically ill patients in emergency response and assist in transferring them to relevant hospitals for treatment as quickly as possible in a closed-loop manner.

Primary medical and health care institutions and communities should proactively inform people receiving home treatment of psychological hotlines to facilitate them in seeking psychological support and counseling.

Home treatment staff

How to conduct health monitoring and symptomatic treatment?

People receiving home treatment should measure their body temperature and monitor their health once in the morning and evening every day. If they have symptoms such as fever or cough, they can take symptomatic treatment or take oral medication. If necessary, they can also contact medical staff at primary medical and health institutions or consult relevant medical institutions through Internet medical services.

Asymptomatic people do not need drug treatment.

When taking medication at home, people must follow the instructions for taking the medication and avoid blindly using antibacterial drugs. If you have an underlying disease, there is no need to change the dosage of the underlying disease treatment drug you are currently using when your condition is stable.

In what cases

Need a referral for treatment?

(1) Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.

(2) After drug treatment, the body temperature remains above 38.5°C for more than 3 days.

(3) The original underlying disease is significantly aggravated and cannot be controlled.

(4) Children show symptoms such as lethargy, persistent food refusal, feeding difficulty, persistent diarrhea or vomiting.

(5) Pregnant women experience symptoms such as headache, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, or abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding or discharge, abnormal fetal movement, etc.

During home treatment

Can I go out?

People receiving home treatment should not go out or accept visitors unless necessary. For those who really need to go out for medical treatment, they should take personal protection throughout the journey, arrive at the medical institution point-to-point, and return home point-to-point after medical treatment, and avoid taking public transportation as much as possible.

During home treatment

What are the infection prevention and control requirements?

(1) Open doors and windows regularly every day to ventilate and maintain indoor air circulation. If natural ventilation is not possible, mechanical ventilation can be performed using exhaust fans.

(2) Ensure proper ventilation and disinfection of shared areas such as toilets and bathrooms.

(3) Wash or disinfect your hands when preparing food, before and after meals, and when removing or putting on a mask.

(4) Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or the inside of your elbow when you cough or sneeze, and throw the used tissue into the trash can.

(5) Do not share daily necessities with other family members, and tableware should be cleaned and disinfected after use.

(6) The surfaces of objects that people receiving home treatment may touch on a daily basis, as well as the towels, clothing, and quilts they use, must be cleaned and disinfected promptly, and the personal belongings of infected people must be placed separately.

(7) If the family shares a bathroom, the home treatment person should disinfect the bathroom after each use; if the home treatment person uses a separate bathroom, it can be disinfected once a day.

(8) Put used tissues, masks, disposable gloves and other household waste into plastic bags and place them in special trash cans.

(9) Objects contaminated by saliva, sputum, etc. should be disinfected at any time.

Breastfeeding mothers

Is it possible to continue breastfeeding my baby?

People receiving home treatment should take good protection and try not to contact other family members. If the person receiving home treatment is a breastfeeding mother, she can continue to breastfeed her baby on the basis of taking good personal protection.

Home treatment staff

How to conduct antigen self-test?

People receiving home treatment must conduct antigen self-testing and report the results in accordance with relevant epidemic prevention requirements.

You can purchase antigen testing reagents through online drug sales e-commerce platforms, or you can seek assistance from your community (village) or local primary medical and health institutions in your jurisdiction to purchase antigen testing reagents.

Communities (villages) and grassroots medical and health institutions should provide convenient access to antigen testing reagents for people in their jurisdiction who need home treatment, especially the elderly.

People receiving home treatment can conduct tests and interpret the results themselves according to the requirements and procedures of the instructions, or they can contact contracted medical staff at primary medical and health institutions to complete the tests and interpret the results under their remote guidance.

End of home treatment

What are the conditions?

If the symptoms of the person receiving home treatment have significantly improved or there are no obvious symptoms, the self-test antigen is negative and the Ct value of two consecutive new coronavirus nucleic acid tests is ≥35 (the interval between the two tests is greater than 24 hours), the home treatment can be terminated and normal life and going out can be resumed.

Home treatment for COVID-19 patients

What are the commonly used medicines?