Oscars Covid Protocol For Testing Is Updated For Recent Infections – CB

The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences supplied extra readability as we speak on the Covid testing necessities for this weekend’s present, offering extra specifics for individuals who have not too long ago had Covid.

The transfer comes because the variety of take a look at specimens indicating the extra transmissible BA.2 Omicron have risen 130% up to now week in L.A. Nationally, there are warnings concerning the surge within the variant could create a spike in new instances, because it appear to have performed within the U.Okay.

In a letter to visitors as we speak, the Academy indicated that the updates had been made in session with medical consultants and native authorities and handle the testing particulars.

They’re as follows:

– Those that examined optimistic for COVID-19 and are inside a zero to five-day window from the date of their first optimistic take a look at will not be permitted to attend beneath any circumstances.

– Those that examined optimistic for COVID-19 and are inside a six to ten-day window from the date of their first optimistic take a look at are required to offer proof of damaging outcomes from two verified PCR, Lucira or Cue Well being COVID-19 exams. These exams might not be taken on the identical day and should be administered by a verified, medically educated skilled.

– The ten-day window is strictly decided by the date and time of the primary optimistic take a look at (antigen or PCR) from a printed lab report and isn’t based mostly on a physician’s word or begin of signs. If you happen to examined optimistic after March 17, 2022 at 1pm PT, you’re thought of throughout the ten-day window.

– In case you are outdoors the ten-day window (you examined optimistic earlier than March 17, 2022 at 1pm PT) and have examined optimistic in your PCR take a look at taken on March 24, you could present proof of damaging outcomes from a medically supervised antigen take a look at taken on March 26 or March 27.

The Academy additionally really helpful that, main as much as the present, attendees apply Social distancing and carrying masks, keep away from “enclosed and crowded areas” and restrict interactions with folks outdoors of “household, associates and colleagues for an prolonged time.”