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LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) – The Linn County Public Health Department is updating its definition of “close contact” as cases in the county continue to rise.
As of today, the ministry is using the CDC’s close contact recommendations for COVID-19.
Close contact is defined as:
- Be within 6 feet of a person with COVID-19 for 15 minutes or more in total over a 24 hour period, starting 2 days before the onset of illness or testing.
- Living in the same household as someone diagnosed with COVID-19.
- Direct physical contact with the person (by hugging or kissing them).
- Sneezing or coughing, or receiving respiratory droplets from a person infected with COVID-19.
Close contact includes all of the above, regardless of mask use.
Close contacts should be quarantined for 14 days after the last exposure. According to the department, quarantine is used to keep someone who may have been exposed to COVID-19 away.
If close contact develops symptoms of COVID-19 or tests positive for COVID-19, they should self-isolate. Isolated people should stay home until it is safe with others again.
If you are at home and you are sick or infected, separate yourself from others by staying in a “sick room” or specific area. You should also try to use a separate bathroom until ALL of the following criteria is met:
- No fever for at least 24 hours without the use of medicines that reduce fever.
- Symptoms improved (eg, cough or shortness of breath improved).
- At least 10 days have passed since the onset of symptoms.
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