LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Los Angeles County health officials updated the county’s travel advisor Monday in response to new federal guidelines released last week.
In accordance with updated guidelines released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can travel without testing or quarantine.
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According to the province’s new advice, travelers who have not been fully vaccinated should be quarantined for seven full days if they pass a negative test within three to five days of arriving in the province. If not tested, they must be quarantined for 10 full days.
“You don’t need to get tested or quarantined yourself if you’ve been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 in the past three months,” CDC officials said. “You still have to follow all other travel recommendations.”
The guidance says “fully vaccinated travelers are less likely to get and spread COVID-19
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“For example, fully vaccinated grandparents can fly to visit their healthy grandchildren without getting a COVID-19 test, or quarantine themselves, provided they follow the other recommended prevention measures,” said CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky at a White House briefing on Friday. .
CDC and LA County officials both recommend that travelers continue to wear masks on public transportation and urge travelers to distance themselves socially and regularly wash hands or use hand sanitizer.
People who have not been vaccinated are still urged by the CDC to delay any trip, “because travel increases your chance of getting and spreading COVID-19.”
Meanwhile, the county reported a new COVID-19 death and 366 additional cases on Monday, noting that the numbers are artificially low on Monday due to weekend reporting delays.
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The numbers brought the county’s total caseload to 1,222,447 and the death toll to 23,276.