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Defining Direct Contact
It is important to understand how direct contact with another individual who has COVID-19 is defined. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines direct contact as the following.
For COVID-19, a close contact is defined as any individual who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to positive specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated.