The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided options to shorten the 14-day quarantine period after exposure to a COVID-19 infected individual based on symptom and/or testing strategies.

 

The Pascagoula-Gautier School District is using the options provided:

Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.

If testing is available, then quarantine can end after Day 7 if an RT-PCR diagnostic specimen (NOT A RAPID RESPONSE TEST) is negative (testing must be done on Day 5 or Day 6) and if no symptoms were reported during daily monitoring.