US medical authorities have cut the recommended self-isolation period for people who test positive for covid but no symptoms of the disease from ten to five days since Monday, Axios reports.
The period of self-isolation “by contact” with sick people has also been reduced to five days. At the same time, for another five days, both “contact persons” and “asymptomatic patients” will need to strictly observe the mask regime.
As the portal notes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made such a decision due to the growing shortage of employees forced to self-isolate amid the spread of the omicron strain in the US. CDC director Rochelle Walenski said the shortening of the self-isolation period is “an attempt to find a balance.”
In addition, last week, the CDC cut the self-isolation period for healthcare workers who tested positive for coronavirus but did not have symptoms from ten to seven days.
We will remind, over the past week in the United States has sharply increased the number of cases of infection “omicron”. This strain has become dominant in the country.
Source: Rosbalt
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