4/15/22—Updated guidance from the LA County Dept. of Public Health removes the quarantine requirement for individuals who are asymptomatic after having had a close contact exposure to a positive case of COVID-19. Individuals who have had an exposure are required to wear a highly protective mask around others, especially indoors, for a total of 10 days after the last contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19, and to test to determine infection status. This updated guidance applies to members of the general public; this excludes health care personnel and other workers in high-risk settings.
The definition of “close contact” has also been updated, in alignment with the California Dept of Public Health definition of “someone sharing the same indoor airspace, e.g., home, clinic waiting room, airplane, etc., for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minute) during an infected person’s (laboratory-confirmed or clinical diagnosis) infectious period.”
