Dearborn and Fayette Counties — Letters are circulating from both the Dearborn County Health Department and the Fayette County Health Department that say that after a 4-month review of data collections, the those that are close contact in classroom settings who become infected with COVID-19 are not significant enough to warrant quarantines. The letter continues by stating that it is lifting quarantine requirements for all students and faculty in classroom settings and in most structured activities except extracurricular activities, where they say there still is some risk still.
The letters that are worded exactly the same are said to have come from very similarly worded letters to counties in the state of Ohio.
Governor Eric Holcomb’s most recent executive order does not allow for counties to make rules less stringent than the state’s guidelines of a minimum of 10 days quarantine from the last day of being around the positive person and be symptom free.
Fayette County Schools have implemented these changes as of today.
