Dorchester District Two issued the following announcement on October 13.
Today, DHEC released updated guidance related to school-based close contacts and quarantine requirements. Previously, in order to reduce the distance from 6ft to 3ft for close contact, both the positive student and the close contact student needed to be masked. The new guidance allows 3ft to be utilized when the close contact is masked, regardless of whether the positive student was masked. DHEC hopes this will assist in keeping more students in school and serve as an incentive for masking. Our nurses will be briefed on this change at a meeting tomorrow and will begin considering this factor during contact tracing moving forward. As a reminder, when both parties are unmasked, or in the case of staff-member involved cases, 6ft is still the requirement.
Please note the school district is making procedural modifications to reflect this updated guidance.
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