COVID QUARANTINE
UPDATED 2.7.2022
Updated Quarantine Cedarville School District
Individuals who have tested positive for COVID will continue to quarantine for a minimum of five (5) days or until the individual has been symptom and fever free for twenty-four (24) hours.
Per Policy 4.34 Individuals experiencing symptoms of any communicable disease are not to attend school until the individual is symptom and fever free for twenty-four (24) hours. Policy 4.34 includes that determination of return to school is at the discretion of school district administrators or nurses. Documentation from a health care provider may be required.
Addendum:
Quarantine for persons identified as a Probable Close Contact and who live in a household with a person who has tested positive.
PCCs living with a person who has tested positive are required to quarantine during the time that the positive person is quarantined in the household. Beginning on the sixth day of that quarantine or on the final day that the positive is symptomatic, the PCC begins their individual five day personal quarantine.
To be clear, the PCC is eligible to return to school wearing a mask on the sixth day after the last day of exposure to a positive tested individual who's symptoms have subsided.
The quarantine process begins anew every time the PCC is exposed to a person who has tested positive for the virus.
If you have questions please contact the school district prior to sending students or returning to school. Thank you for your help and patience!'
Effective January 6, 2022 the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH), and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) modified the requirements related to quarantining of individuals infected with or exposed to COVID.
NOW individuals who have tested positive for COVID and individuals identified as probable close contacts (PCC) are required to quarantine for five (5) days. ALL positive and PCCs are required to wear a mask for the 5 days following quarantine. Failure to wear a mask during the 5 days following quarantine will require a return to quarantine for the remainder of the original ten (10) days.
Positive individuals are required to quarantine for 5 days or for twenty-four (24) hours after the cessation of symptoms including fever. Individuals who have tested positive are required to wear a mask for 5 days following quarantine.
Individuals identified as PCCs are required to quarantine for 5 days and wear a mask for the first five days following quarantine. If a PCC develops symptoms or tests positive, the entire quarantine process begins anew.