Coronavirus patients should not rely on negative test results for exiting quarantine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, and instead should leave based on symptoms.

“Studies have not found evidence that clinically recovered persons with persistence of viral RNA have transmitted [COVID-19] to others,” new CDC guidance said. “These findings strengthen the justification for relying on a symptom based, rather than test-based strategy for ending isolation of these patients.”

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