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(CNN) -- Health care workers returning to New York who've had contact with Ebola patients but don't show symptoms can serve a mandatory 21-day quarantine in their homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday night. <\/p>\n
This is a change in the recently instituted state policy on health workers who return to the United States from the Ebola zone. <\/p>\n
Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had jointly announced a mandatory quarantine policy on Friday. Over the weekend, the Obama administration lobbied the governors to change it. <\/p>\n
The temperatures of a asymptomatic health care workers will be checked twice daily. Returning health care workers who show symptoms of the Ebola virus will be transported to hospitals for mandatory quarantine, according to a fact sheet on the new guidelines. <\/p>\n
People who return from the Ebola zones but didn't have contact with Ebola patients will be handled on a case-by-case basis, the fact sheet said. <\/p>\n
The fact sheet said the state would provide financial assistance to the quarantined health workers if their employers do not. <\/p>\n
In New Jersey, Christie spokesman Kevin Roberts said the Garden State's policy also allows at-home quarantines. <\/p>\n
\"New Jersey is not changing its quarantine protocol. The protocol is clear that a New Jersey resident with no symptoms, but who has come into contact with someone with Ebola, such as a health care provider, would be subject to a mandatory quarantine order and quarantined at home,\" Roberts said. \"Nonresidents would be transported to their homes if feasible and, if not, quarantined in New Jersey.\" <\/p>\n
The Obama administration has been urging Cuomo and Christie to reverse their recently enacted policies that require a 21-day quarantine for all health workers who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa, The New York Times reported Sunday. <\/p>\n
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