Officials in the South Butler County School District have made changes to their pandemic protocol that they believe will keep students, faculty and staff safe while allowing the schools to remain open.

Superintendent David Foley said the quarantine time for those who test positive in the district was reduced from 14 days to five days in keeping with the protocol recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC shortened its isolation guidelines in late December to five days for a positive case without symptoms or if symptoms are resolving, based on statistics on the spread of the omicron variant of the virus.

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