The State of Wisconsin has announced a change in the quarantine restrictions for those deemed to be a close contact to someone who tests positive for COVID-19.
In his tri-weekly COVID-19 update Monday morning on WOMT and WCUB Radio, Manitowoc County Emergency Services Director Travis Waack explained, “If you are able in any way to do the full 14-day quarantine that is the safest, but if you have work obligations or other things that make it extremely difficult to do that 14 day quarantine period, it is permissible to do 10 days if you do not have any symptoms during that 10 days.”
He also said that it can be shortened even further “if you have no symptoms at all, and you get a negative test within two days of the end of that 7 day period, you can get released…at the 7-day mark.”
He stressed that 14 days is still the safest and the most recommended time you should stay home.
Those new timelines are only for people who have been in contact with a positive case, not for those who have tested positive. Those people still need to stay home for 10 days after their positive test.
