For those who are recuperating at home due to the new coronavirus infection

How to spend your time while waiting at home until hospitalization or hotel admission, and during home recuperation

・Take your temperature twice a day (morning and evening) and monitor your physical condition carefully.

・Please take the following measures to prevent the spread of infection to your housemates and people around you.

1. Please avoid going out and contacting other people (including those who live with you) until the medical treatment is lifted.
2. Please prepare a private room for those who have tested positive and spend time there. If you unavoidably share a toilet or bathroom with someone who lives with you, please disinfect it properly after use.

*Please refer to the file at the bottom of this page for information on how to isolate yourself at home.

About health observation

・If you are in the hospital or are waiting for medical treatment at a hotel, you may receive a phone call from the public health center, etc., so please answer the phone.

*The number may not always start with 03, as calls may be made from business-use smartphones.

・If you are recuperating at home, please measure your body temperature twice a day.

* If we are unable to contact you , we may visit you to confirm your safety. note that.

Discharge Criteria and Treatment Release Criteria (as of 2022/09/07)

Those with symptoms

Other than Ai

The guideline for canceling medical treatment is when 7 days have passed from the day after the onset of symptoms and 24 hours have passed after the symptoms have subsided.

If the symptoms have not improved on the 7th day, or if 24 hours have passed since the symptoms improved, the treatment should be terminated.

However, since the risk of infection remains until 10 days have passed, please implement the following two points.

・Confirmation of health status by yourself, such as temperature measurement

・Voluntary infection prevention actions such as avoiding contact with high-risk people such as the elderly, non-urgent visits to high-risk facilities, using places with high risk of infection and eating together, wearing a mask, etc.

*Applies to those who are undergoing medical treatment as of September 7, 2022.

b. Those who are hospitalized (including those who are in facilities for the elderly)

10 days have passed since the day after the onset of symptoms and 72 hours have passed since the symptoms subsided.

If the symptoms have not improved on the 10th day, and 72 hours have passed after the symptoms have improved, the treatment should be terminated.

Those who have never had symptoms (asymptomatic pathogen carriers)

A. The guideline for canceling medical treatment is when 7 days have passed since the sample collection date of the test that served as the basis for the diagnosis is day 0.

In addition to a., if the test with the antigen qualitative test kit ^Note on the 5th day is confirmed to be negative, the waiting period can be canceled after 5 days have passed (day 6). In addition, if a negative test is confirmed on the 6th day, it is possible to cancel the standby on the same day (after the test result is confirmed).

However, since the risk of infection remains until 7 days have passed, please implement the following two points.

・Confirmation of health status by yourself, such as temperature measurement

・Voluntary infection prevention actions such as avoiding contact with high-risk people such as the elderly, non-urgent visits to high-risk facilities, using places with high risk of infection and eating together, wearing a mask, etc.

*Applies to those who are undergoing medical treatment as of September 7, 2022.

Note) The antigen qualitative test kit must be self-funded and must be approved by the pharmaceutical affairs.

About refraining from going out during the medical treatment period

If a symptomatic person has passed 24 hours after their symptoms have subsided, or if they are asymptomatic, they should only go out or interact with others for a short period of time, do not use public transportation when traveling, and when going out or interacting with others You can go out to the minimum necessary extent, such as shopping for groceries, on the premise that you will take voluntary infection prevention actions such as wearing a mask at all times.

Please be careful

• Currently, due to the rapid spread of the infection, the public health center is not contacting those who are recuperating at home to cancel the recuperation. Please manage your own health observation and the number of days of medical treatment.
• If it is determined by health observation that the symptoms of the new coronavirus infection continue and the criteria for canceling medical treatment are not met, the period of discharge and medical treatment may be extended.
• The duration of medical treatment and the criteria for canceling medical treatment are subject to change. Please see the latest information posted on the Kita City website.

Telephone Consultation List (as of 2022/12/01)

Kita Ward Novel Coronavirus Health Consultation Center

For those who wish to consult over the phone about their physical condition related to the new coronavirus

• Phone number: 03-3919-4500
• Reception hours: Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tuberculosis Infectious Disease Section, Health Prevention Division, Kita Ward Public Health Center

For those who wish to have a general telephone consultation about the novel coronavirus

• Phone number: 03-3919-3102
• Reception hours: Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tokyo Fever Consultation Center

(1) Tokyo Metropolitan Fever Consultation Center (nurses and public health nurses are available)

For those who wish to consult about symptoms

• Phone number: 03-5320-4551, 03-5320-4411, 03-6258-5780, 03-5320-4592
• Reception hours: 24 hours (every day including weekends and holidays)

(2) Tokyo Metropolitan Fever Consultation Center Medical Institution Information Dial (-General Operators)

For those who wish to be guided to medical institutions

• Phone number: 03-5320-4327, 03-5320-5971, 03-5320-7030
• Reception hours: 24 hours (every day including weekends and holidays)

Handbook for home care recipients ~ To prevent the spread of infection ~

The Infection Control Team of the Tokyo iCDC Expert Board has created a "handbook for home care patients" for those who have been infected with the new coronavirus and are being treated at home. We have summarized the precautions to be taken while recuperating at home and the infection prevention measures, so please make use of them (you can download them from the bottom of this page).

Request during home care

Please cooperate with your own health observation (regular temperature measurement and symptom check) during treatment.

*Please note that if we are unable to contact you, we may visit your home (recuperation facility) to check on your situation.

[File download]

・New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Handbook for Home Care Patients (3rd Edition) (Tokyo iCDC Expert Board Infection Control Team Created: January 2022) (PDF: 1,987KB)

・To all of you recuperating at home (September, 2022 revision) (PDF: 494KB)

・Things to be aware of at home - 8 points - (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare creation date: March 1, 2020) (PDF: 290KB)

・New coronavirus infectious disease facility and household disinfection method (PDF: 114KB)