NEW YORK, Dec 29 ― New York City will stop quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus and will instead prioritize a ramped-up testing program so that asymptomatic students testing negative for Covid-19 can remain in school, officials said yesterday.
The Omicron variant was estimated to be 58.6 per cent of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of December 25, CDC data showed yesterday. The city's previous policy was to quarantine unvaccinated close contacts of infected students for 10 days.
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