New Jersey’s top law enforcement official has stopped quarantining at home after two negative coronavirus tests, a spokesman told NJ Advance Media.
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal had come into contact with an employee who had tested positive two weeks ago, on Nov. 9, and he began working remotely two days later, spokesman Steven Barnes wrote in an email.
Grewal took an initial rapid COVID-19 test, which checks if someone’s immune system appears to be combating the virus, that came back positive.
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But two PCR tests were later negative, meaning the virus’ genetic material did not appear to be inside him.
On Saturday, Grewal learned the staff member he’d come in contact with was actually a “false positive,” according to his office. He ended his quarantine “shortly thereafter.”
He has remained asymptomatic throughout, Barnes said.
Grewal was upbeat during an unrelated interview last week, and he said the negative tests were helping him resume a normal schedule.
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