Eligible for Home Recovery Programme

This information is for individuals who:

• Are unwell and have been tested positive by a doctor.

• Are placed on Home Recovery Programme (HRP) by default.

• Have indicated no severe medical conditions when they filled up the form in their Isolation Order (IO) SMS.

HRP is the default care arrangement for everyone, except for the following:

• Partially or unvaccinated individuals aged 50 years and older;
• Vaccinated persons 80 years and older;
• Children aged less than 1 year, and children aged 1 to 4 years who have been assessed to be clinically unsuitable for home recovery.

If you are not eligible for HRP, you will receive a call from MOH to schedule your transfer to an appropriate care facility. Click here for more details.

Immediate action

• You should immediately self-isolate from other household members in a separate room, preferably with an attached bathroom. Do not interact with anyone.
• Do not leave your house. There is no need to go to the hospital or call 995.
• Stay calm and monitor your health.

What to expect

• You should receive an SMS within 48 hours of your positive test result on HealthHub to inform you of your Isolation Order (IO).
  • If you do not receive an SMS within 48 hours, please fill in this form.
  • In the same SMS, you will be informed that you are eligible for Home Recovery Programme (HRP).
  • There will be a link for you to provide your details and register your household members as close contacts.
  • Your household members will receive a Health Risk Warning (HRW) and can refer to this page for what they should do on HRW .
• A Home Recovery Buddy will contact you to onboard you onto the HRP.

What to do in the coming days

• During your Home Recovery period, you will have 2 resources available to you:
  • For medical assistance, contact the GP who conducted your test if the clinic is participating in HRP. Otherwise, you can request for a telemedicine provider at go.gov.sg/telemedicineproviders.
    • For more information on telemedicine and when to use it, click here.
  • For non-medical assistance, speak to a Home Recovery Buddy (HRB) at 6874 4939.
• Practise good personal hygiene by washing hands regularly with soap and water.
• Monitor your temperature, pulse rate and oxygen saturation daily. No reporting of your readings is required.

How to use an oximeter

When can I be discharged?

For fully vaccinated individuals, and children aged 12 years and below

• You will automatically be discharged on Day 10, 12pm onwards. No test is required.
• A discharge memo will be issued to you via SMS on the same day.

For unvaccinated individuals above the age of 12

• You will automatically be discharged on Day 14, 12pm onwards. No test is required.
• A discharge memo will be issued to you via SMS on the same day.

What to do after getting discharged

• After discharge, you should minimise social activities for 7 days. Do continue to observe safe management measures.

• If you feel unwell after discharge, you may visit any GP clinic of your choice.

• You can show the end date of your original Isolation Order SMS as proof of recovery. If you have received a discharge memo, that can also be used as proof of recovery.

• Please disinfect your room after you’re discharged. Here are useful links to guide you through the cleaning procedure:

  • Guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting households on Home Recovery
  • List of household disinfectants and self-disinfecting surface coating products against COVID-19 virus

FAQs

• How should my household members manage daily necessities during my Home Recovery?
• My household members have also tested positive for COVID-19. Can we be on the Home Recovery Programme (HRP) together?

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