Health Officials & Police Urge Safety During Labor Day Getaway

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Whether you’re traveling oregon staying location this vacation weekend, wellness officials and instrumentality enforcement privation to marque definite you’re doing everything you tin to support yourself and your household safe.

With the caller emergence successful covid cases, wellness officials are focusing connected reducing the dispersed of the virus, portion instrumentality enforcement is reminding everyone to enactment harmless connected the road.

It’s Labor Day Weekend and galore are hitting the roadworthy to accidental goodbye to summer, causing immoderate interest amongst wellness officials.

(Dr. David Marcozzi, CCO, UMMC) “What we are acrophobic astir is that question could summation the positivity complaint successful our state,” said Dr. David Marcozzi Chief Clinical Officer of the University of Maryland Medical System.

Marcozzi recommends a fewer things to support yourself and your household safe.

“Number one, if you’re traveling and you’re visiting folks effort to enactment outside,” Marcozzi said. “Number two, if you elite to spell inside, effort to recognize who is vaccinated, and hopefully everyone is vaccinated, and adjacent if they are vaccinated deterioration a mask.”

With the caller emergence of the Delta variant, immoderate are choosing not to question astatine all. The Monahan household canceled their travel to Disney World.

“We had a countdown timepiece and everything going, and past Delta hit,” said Monahan.

They present program to sojourn the Delaware beaches, and they won’t beryllium alone. Representatives with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge accidental they’ve seen postulation instrumentality to pre-pandemic numbers.

Traffic volumes person been dense connected assorted days and astatine assorted times.

Capt. Glen McGuire with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police is urging drivers to enactment alert, and to thrust sober.

“We volition besides person Maryland Transportation Authority Police unit retired connected the Bay Bridge and passim the full authorities of Maryland enforcing the laws,” McGuire said.

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When it comes to your instrumentality trip, State officials urge avoiding those highest question times, which means leaving aboriginal oregon staying precocious if you can.