What Does Isolating Mean?

In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient.

What is the difference between quarantine and isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Quarantine Helps Slow the Spread of COVID-19
Quarantine means to stay home.
People who were near someone with COVID-19 must quarantine.
Quarantine for 14 days if you were near someone with COVID-19.
Take your temperature two times each day.
Stay away from other people.
Stay away from people with other health problems.

Isolation Helps Slow the Spread of COVID-19.
Isolation means to stay away from other people.
People with COVID-19 must stay in isolation.
People with COVID-19 must stay away from other people.
People with COVID-19 must stay away from people in their home.

How long should I stay in home isolation if I have been around a person with COVID-19?

Anyone who has had close contact with someone with COVID-19 should stay home for 14 days after their last exposure to that person.