“College students will now be permitted to take part in organized sporting and extracurricular actions so long as they continue to be symptom-free and comply with relevant security precautions,” reads a Monday launch from Gov. Mike DeWine.
COLUMBUS — Ohio college students taking part in athletics or extracurriculars will not must quarantine after being uncovered to coronavirus within the classroom, per a brand new well being order issued Monday.
College students by the way uncovered to a COVID-positive classmate — in the event that they had been inside six ft of the individual for a minimum of quarter-hour, however whereas each had been sporting a masks — will not have to take a seat out their faculty actions except they develop signs, in accordance with the new Ohio Department of Health order signed Monday by Director Stephanie McCloud.
“College students will now be permitted to take part in organized sporting and extracurricular actions so long as they continue to be symptom-free and comply with relevant security precautions,” reads a Monday launch from Gov. Mike DeWine.
“Nonetheless, college students who’re uncovered in different settings exterior of the classroom shall be required to proceed following current CDC quarantine steerage.”
Which means a 14-day quarantine interval.
Gamers, coaches, officers or others who had shut contact with a COVID-positive individual or had direct contact — i.e. had been coughed or sneezed on — however have not developed signs could quarantine a minimum of 10 days with out taking a coronavirus check, or a minimum of seven days after receiving a destructive check, in accordance with the state pointers.
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