Rules And Regulations With Covid In Texas
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When you are sick: Use precautions to prevent spread, including staying home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory symptoms. Learn when you can go back to your normal activities.
If you have tested positive, there are important steps you can take to help keep yourself and those around you safe: Seek COVID-19 treatment immediately if you have symptoms. ​ Isolate by staying home and away from other people. ​ Wear a mask when around other people indoors. ​ Take precautions and inform your contacts.
If you tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms, regardless of vaccination status: Stay home for at least five days. Stay home for five days and isolate from others in your home. Wear a well-fitted mask if you must be around others in your home.
A new law prohibits private employers from adopting or enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. This law covers employees, contractors, and applicants. These restrictions are in Senate Bill 7, which adds Chapter 81D to the Texas Health & Safety Code. The law goes into effect February 6th, 2024.
With the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, many states are winding down COVID-19 vaccine mandates, with some states moving to limit the ability of public and private entities to require COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment or access to goods and services.
In ance with guidance from the CDC, if you test positive for COVID-19 you should: Isolate for 5 days regardless of vaccination status. Only leave isolation after 5 days if you have no symptoms or your symptoms are improving, including at least 24 hours without a fever.
When you are sick: Use precautions to prevent spread, including staying home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory symptoms. Seek health care promptly for testing and/or treatment if you have risk factors for severe illness.
If you tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms, regardless of vaccination status: Stay home for at least five days. Stay home for five days and isolate from others in your home. Wear a well-fitted mask if you must be around others in your home.
Stay in self-quarantine for 10 days after your last exposure (unless you are fully vaccinated or tested positive for COVID-19 in the past and meet all criteria noted in the section above). Check daily for symptoms, wash hands, always wear a mask and stay at least 6 feet from others for 14 days.
If you continue to have no symptoms, you can be with others after 10 days have passed since you had a positive viral test for COVID-19. Most people do not require testing to decide when they can be around others.
