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Los Angeles County residents who have been exposed to COVID-19 no longer have to quarantine as long as they show no symptoms, mask up and test regularly, according to updated quarantine guidance released by Los Angeles County Public Health Department — though the county reported Thursday the region is now witnessing “substantial” community transmission.
Anybody who believes they’ve been exposed, as always, Ferrer said, needs to continue to monitor themselves for 10 days following the exposure. “At any point that symptoms develop, you’re no longer eligible to not quarantine,” she added. “You need to go stay home and test. And then if you test positive, follow the isolation requirements.”
Staff in high-risk settings who were exposed to COVID-19, incompletely vaccinated or they’ve not been infected with COVID-19 within the prior 90 days need to exclude themselves from work for at least five days after their last exposure, Ferrer said. “If allowed by their employer a work exclusion can end after day five if they’re asymptomatic and if a diagnostic specimen collected on day five or later tests negative.
Noting the stark differences were due to shortcomings in the testing system, Ferrer said many people who may have been infected with the virus never got tested because they never got sick or developed any symptoms. Access to testing was also limited at times, preventing people from getting their infections confirmed.
Based on the most recent genetic testing on COVID case samples in the county, the subvariant BA.2 is now believed to account for 67% of all infections locally. That’s up from 47% a week ago and from 32% the week before that.
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