The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue new guidelines reducing the length of isolation time for people exposed to coronavirus from two weeks after exposure to seven to ten days, CNN reports.
Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, informed the White House Coronavirus Task Force of the change in the recommendation during a Tuesday meeting.
People can leave quarantine after seven days if they receive a negative coronavirus test or after ten days if they have not had a test but have no symptoms.
This comes after the CDC changed the parameters of what it considered “close contact” from meaning 15 minutes of continuous contact with an infected person to spending 15 minutes in total around infected people. The update occurred after it was found that repeated exposure in short segments to an infected person can lead to infection.