Updated COVID-19 Guidance & Summary Charts

January 11, 2022

The following is important updated COVID-19 guidance from the state on workplace exclusion and return-to-work for individuals with COVID-19 or exposure to COVID-19, as well as information on the revised Emergency Temporary Standards taking effect on January 14.

Additionally, the January 11 Napa County Public Health COVID-19 presentation by Dr. Karen Relucio is attached below with appropriate guidance summary charts included in the presentation slides.

On January 6, 2022, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released new guidance on workplace exclusion and return-to-work for individuals with COVID-19 or exposure to COVID-19. The guidance shortened isolation and quarantine periods generally to 5 days from 10 days in the absence of fever with a negative test. Without those conditions, quarantine/isolation continues for 10 days. For 10 days after a positive test, a person must wear a face covering around others.

Vaccinated and/or boosted individuals exposed to someone with COVID-19 may skip quarantine but should wear a mask for 10 days and get tested on day five.

Per Governor Newsom’s December 2020 Executive Order N-84-20, this new CDPH guidance on quarantine/isolation supersedes the quarantine/isolation requirements of both the June 2021 version of the Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS), and the version of the ETS that will become effective on January 14, 2022.

All other portions of the June 2021 version of the ETS which takes effect on January 14, 2022 will still apply.

To read the new updated CDPH guidance on workplace exclusion and return-to-work, please click the link below.

Updated CDPH Guidance on Quarantine/Isolation

For information on the revised Emergency Temporary Standards taking effect on January 14, please click below.

DIR's Emergency Temporary Standards

For Napa County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Relucio's January 11 COVID-19 presentation with guidance summary charts, please click below.

Napa County Public Health's January 11 COVID-19 Presentation & Guidance Summary Charts