The Peru Gazette

Health Department Note of June 23:

Note: Some labs are taking a particularly long time to report test results. This is not something that we have control over, but it does sometimes affect when cases are reported to you, and how soon after you see individuals move to the recovered category.

– The isolation period for an asymptomatic person (a person who is tested, but has no symptoms) begins on the date their test is collected.

– For a symptomatic person (a person with symptoms of COVID-19), isolation starts when their symptoms began. Isolation continues for a minimum of 10 days, and until there is no fever for at least 3 days and symptoms have improved.

– According to the symptom-based strategy to discontinue isolation for persons with COVID-19, the word recovered is used to describe someone who is no longer infectious, or able to pass the virus to another person (https://bit.ly/2VagXLD). A person who is recovered may still experience ongoing effects from the virus.

– There are multiple criteria that may place an individual in the probable category. For the probable case definition used by NYS, visit https://bit.ly/3en5n7o. Note that this is not a category that CCHD developed. A case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. These enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. — sharing a COVID-19 Update.