Howard County Schools Will Require Masks For Students, Staff And Visitors

COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — Howard County nationalist schools volition necessitate masks for each students, unit and visitors successful schoolhouse buildings during the 2021-2022 world year, effectual immediately, Superintendent Dr. Michael Martirano announced connected Friday.

Masks volition besides beryllium required connected schoolhouse buses, but not erstwhile students oregon unit are eating and drinking wrong oregon erstwhile they are outside.

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In a release, the schoolhouse strategy said the determination complies with guidance from the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Howard County Health Department to instrumentality to cosmopolitan indoor masking.

“The wellness and information of our unit and students is of utmost concern,” Martirano said successful a statement. “There is simply a emergence successful COVID-19 cases and we person a important information of students who are not yet eligible for the vaccine, which necessitates layering mitigation strategies. The usage of look masks has proven to beryllium an effectual measurement astatine preventing the dispersed of COVID-19 and cosmopolitan indoor masking volition assistance successful allowing america to support schools open.”

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The schoolhouse strategy volition proceed offering escaped meals for each students, keeping a proviso of idiosyncratic protective instrumentality specified arsenic masks and disinfectant wipes, and putting up protective plexiglass barriers.

During the summer, workers replaced 12,439 aerial filters successful the HVAC units of each schoolhouse buildings to guarantee due aerial prime successful the classroom.

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Administrators successful Baltimore County and Frederick County person besides announced “universal masking” policies for the upcoming schoolhouse twelvemonth arsenic good arsenic Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

CBS Baltimore Staff