US health officials recommend shorter Covid isolation, quarantine

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommended cutting isolation restrictions and shortening quarantine.

US health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.