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Department of Education restates quarantine rules for schools and defers epidemiological data requests to health agency
Summary
Johnny Key told lawmakers the quarantine guidance remains similar to last year: a close contact is within 6 feet for a cumulative 15 minutes, vaccination and consistent masking can alter quarantine requirements, testing after day 5 with return on day 7 is an option and positive cases require 10 days isolation; Key said the Department of Education does not hold state-level data on quarantine effectiveness and referred requests to the Department of Health.
Johnny Key of the Arkansas Department of Education briefed the committee on this year's school quarantine guidance and answered questions from legislators.
Key said a close contact is defined as someone who was within 6 feet of an infectious person for 15 cumulative minutes or longer during a 24-hour period. He said individuals who recovered from COVID within the prior three months and are asymptomatic need not quarantine, and that fully vaccinated asymptomatic individuals (two weeks past final…
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