Rochester Community School Corporation Superintendent Jana Vance released the following informatioon regarding the Fulton County Health Department's approval of CDC recommendations for quarantine as it relates to close contact to a person who is positive for Covid:

 

 

As of 12/3/20, the Fulton County Health Department has approved the new CDC recommendations for quarantine as they pertain to close contact to an individual who is positive for Covid.  

 

If a student or staff member of Rochester Schools is identified as a close contact to a positive person, they have 2 options for quarantine time:

 

1. They may quarantine for 10 days from their exposure date to a positive person and come back to school/work without being tested.

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2. They may quarantine for 7 days from their exposure date to a positive person and come back to school with a negative test result. The test cannot be taken before day 5 of quarantine and the individual must remain in quarantine through the 7 days.

 

Please note that the school does have to have verification of a negative test for the student or staff to return to school. 

 

Per the Fulton County Health Department, members living in the same household as a person positive for COVID-19 cannot properly isolate.  Therefore, students or staff in the same household as a person positive for COVID-19 OR a person quarantining with symptoms but not tested will need to quarantine at home for 20 days.

 

Jana K. Vance, Ed.S

Superintendent

Rochester Community School Corporation