(Updated at noon) Arlington Public Schools is bringing athletics back early and reducing quarantine periods, despite more than a thousand Covid cases reported among students and staff this past week. The isolation period for staff members who test positive will be halved to five days. APS will still require a 10-day isolation period for students who test positive for COVID-19, despite the CDC’s recent change to guidelines allowing a five-day isolation for positive cases under certain conditions. That compares to 56 positive student cases over a seven-day period just over a month ago, in early December. APS will reduce the isolation period for staff to five days.

Source: The Guardian January 14, 2022 10:36 UTC