Harford County Schools Will Require Students, Staff To Wear Masks

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BEL AIR, Md. (WJZ) — Starting adjacent week, masks volition beryllium required successful each Harford County schoolhouse buildings and connected schoolhouse buses.

In a missive to parents connected Thursday, Superintendent Sean Bulson and schoolhouse committee President Rachel Gauthier said the determination was made successful airy of local, authorities and national wellness guidelines.

Under guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, students whose classmates oregon teachers trial affirmative for COVID-19 whitethorn not person to quarantine if schools travel COVID-19 protocols, including 3-feet distancing, cleaning and ventilation improvements.

Students who are not wearing masks oregon are incapable to region whitethorn beryllium sent location to quarantine for 10 to 14 days.

Administrators punctual parents to person their children enactment location if they are experiencing imaginable symptoms of the coronavirus. Students who are isolated owed to unwellness oregon quarantined owed to imaginable vulnerability indispensable beryllium picked up from the schoolhouse and cannot thrust a schoolhouse bus. School nurses volition pass each identified adjacent contacts astir their imaginable exposures to COVID-19.

Students should expect to bring a h2o vessel to school. Water fountains stay closed but for vessel filling.

All Marylanders 12 and up are eligible to beryllium vaccinated. All wellness protocols are taxable to change.

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