{"id":"MET-PIT-014","kind":"order","level":"county","jurisdiction":"Allegheny County, Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"PIT","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Allegheny County Health Department","authority":"35 P.S. 521.5; 28 Pa. Code 27.60 (isolation and quarantine directions of the local health authority)","instrument":"COVID-19 Guidance: Isolation and Quarantine Basics (updated August 24, 2021; posted as 08-26-21)","title":"Isolation and Quarantine Basics","dateIssued":"2021-08-24","effective":"2021-08-24 (earlier versions July 2 and July 23, 2020; Nov. 2020; Dec. 4, 2020; July 26, 2021)","end":"Superseded by later revisions after the period","startDate":"2021-08-24","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["QUAR"],"addressees":["persons who test positive","close contacts","their employers and schools"],"clause":"REGARDLESS OF YOUR VACCINATION STATUS, ISOLATE: Avoid all others. Only leave your home for medical care. Remain isolated for 10 days since you first experienced symptoms of COVID-19 or 24 hours after symptoms improve, whichever is longer.... If you tested positive and did not have symptoms, remain isolated for 10 days starting from the date you had your positive test taken.... You should NOT get a follow-up test to go back to work or school or to end isolation after 10 days.","enforcement":"Directions of the local health authority under 28 Pa. Code 27.60; the document is framed as guidance for persons not reached by case investigators.","functions":["WF workforce (10-day exclusion of positive employees regardless of vaccination status; quarantine of contacts)","HR","CB"],"notes":"The August 2021 version recites that case volume exceeded the Department\u0027s capacity to reach every case and contact, a fact and circumstance of the Delta wave in Q3 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/Allegheny_Home/Health_Department/Resources/COVID-19/Docs/Isolation-Quarantine%20Basics%2008-26-21.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210924130645/https://www.alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/Allegheny_Home/Health_Department/Resources/COVID-19/Docs/Isolation-Quarantine%20Basics%2008-26-21.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":280056,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-PIT","url":"/library/MET-PIT-014","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-PIT-014","citation":"Allegheny County Health Department, COVID-19 Guidance: Isolation and Quarantine Basics (updated August 24, 2021; posted as 08-26-21) (Aug. 24, 2021) (Ex. MET-PIT-014)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":[]}