Adjusted CDC requirements for employees returning to work after contracting COVID-19

DOUGHERTY COUNTY, Ga. – COVID-19 has loosened it’s grip on Albany and Dougherty County and people who were once infected with the virus are returning to work.

The Department of Public Health (DPH) released a new set of CDC requirements for those that are attempting to return to work.

In the past the CDC suggested that a person test negative for COVID-19 twice before returning to work but that is no longer necessary.

“10 or more days have to pass beyond the first date of symptoms. Second condition is that 72 consecutive hours without any fever while the person is not taking any medicine that might lower the temperate and then the third, all of the COVID-19 symptoms must be dramatically improving,” says Southwest Georgia Health District Health Director, Dr. Charles Ruis.