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Pandemic Control Measures: Sanitization, Quarantine and Lockdown, Sheltering, and Relocation

Pandemic Control Measures Sanitization, Quarantine and Lockdown, Sheltering, and Relocation

After a cholera pandemic broke out, inspection and sanitation personnel had to carefully handle cases of carriers or infected persons by following protocols. At the time, the protocols entailed moving patients/deceased persons in a specific way to avoid the further spread. Patients were to be relocated and quarantined in medical facilities designated for the pandemic, and temporary quarantine wards and shelters for healthy persons were built. Moreover, regarding contracted patients, houses where patients still lived should be isolated, blockaded, and locked down under 24-hour monitoring by designated personnel in shifts. In the event of a patient’s demise, it is imperative that the body should be thoroughly sealed and sanitized before it should be moved and buried at the designated cemetery. The authority also assigned personnel to inspect if any patients were concealed to prevent the pandemic from spreading.