Period of Quarantine (Contact with other persons) (Amendment)

L.N. 332 of 2021

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Period of Quarantine (Contact with other persons) (Amendment)

Order, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Period of Quarantine

(Contact with other persons) (Amendment) Order, 2021 and this order

shall be read and construed as one with the Period of Quarantine

(Contact with other persons) Order, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal order".

(2)

This order shall come into force on 16 August 2021.

Article 2 of the principal order shall be substituted by the

following new article

"2. The Superintendent of Public Health hereby

orders that any person who comes in contact with a

person diagnosed as suffering from COVID-19 infectious

disease must submit oneself to a fourteen (14) day period

of quarantine immediately upon receiving an oral or

written order, as the case may be, from the

Superintendent of Public Health

Provided that the Superintendent of Public

Health may, in her absolute discretion, suspend the

provisions of this order or provide for other conditions, by

means of standards issued for this purpose, where, in the

opinion of the Superintendent of Public Health, the

quarantine of certain persons providing an essential service

or persons in possession of a vaccination certificate should

be for a period of less than fourteen (14) days or subject to

different conditions.".

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