The United States reduces the isolation period for coronavirus patients to 5 days

The US Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reduced the period of self-isolation for coronavirus infection from 10 to five days.

The document from (CDC) says, “Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the omicron variant, the CDC is reducing the recommended isolation time from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to five days if the disease is asymptomatic, followed by five days of wearing a mask.

At the same time, the CDC has tightened recommendations for those who have been in contact with infected people. Now only those who have received three doses of the coronavirus vaccine are exempt from the mandatory quarantine. Previously, if there was a risk of infection, anyone who had received two doses of the coronavirus vaccine could not be quarantined.

Earlier, the chief infectious disease specialist in the United States, Anthony Fauci, said that the new “Omicron” strain of the Corona virus causes a less dangerous course of the disease, but the high infection rate still threatens overcrowding in American hospitals.