Family members of Covid-19 patients not close contacts, necessarily

A health worker monitors a Covid-19 patient being treated at home in HCMC's District 8, August 29, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Residents of the same living quarters or members of work groups with Covid-19 cases are not necessarily treated as their close contacts, the Health Ministry says.

It said in a document issued Thursday that people living in the same house, moving in the same vehicles or in the same group at workplaces, trips or parties with Covid-19 cases are now no longer considered close contacts.

Contact within two meters of Covid-19 cases by itself doesn't make someone a close contact as well. Only unmasked people making contact within the range are considered close contacts, while masked people must make contact within the range for at least 15 minutes to qualify as a close contact.

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