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OU updates quarantine guidelines, antigen testing

Gillian Ice, special assistant to the president for public health operations, announced new guidelines for quarantine and the availability of rapid antigen tests for Ohio University students and staff in an email Tuesday 

These changes come after OU announced a decrease in precautionary measures due to a stable and steady decline of active COVID-19 cases among Athens students on Feb. 11. The developments included allowing guests in residence halls, the serving of food at university events and the permittance of in-person meetings.

The updated quarantine procedure states students, faculty and staff are not required to quarantine following a known COVID-19 exposure, but they are still required to follow proper masking procedure, file an incident report and test. Additionally, residential students who are up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccination or who have tested positive in the last 90 days with a vaccination or booster record on file are not required to quarantine.

Additionally, students in residence halls without updated COVID-19 vaccines or who are not vaccinated will continue to be quarantined upon exposure. 

Rapid antigen tests have also been made available on all OU campuses as the Ohio Department of Health has allotted a limited supply of one BinaxNOW rapid test per Ohio student or staff member each week. Tests are available at the 4th floor service desk in Alden Library in addition to the Office of Health Promotion in Baker University Center.  

Regional campuses will have BinaxNOW tests available at the same locations providing Vault Health at-home test kits.

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