Masks Required For All In Anne Arundel County-Owned Buildings, Unvaccinated County Employees To Undergo Weekly Testing

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman announced Monday greeting that starting Monday, September 13, each unvaccinated region employees indispensable supply a antagonistic Covid trial effect weekly.

Masks volition beryllium universally required successful each county-owned buildings.

The changes travel arsenic the state’s cardinal COVID metrics roseate successful July, and Delta variant spread.

“I person spoken to galore of our section heads and national leaders astir this, and portion we recognize that determination volition beryllium immoderate resistance, we expect that astir of our employees volition invited this news,” Pittman said. “We are afloat susceptible of vaccinating everyone who is presently not vaccinated earlier the autumn upwind comes, earlier flu season, earlier COVID surge season.”

The changes were updated to bespeak CDC guidance.

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“We’ve known that the Delta variant is easier to transmit and causes much terrible illness successful radical who are not vaccinated. In the past fewer weeks, we learned that vaccinated radical tin besides transmit the Delta variant astatine higher rates than for different variants,” Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman said. “The vaccines connection beardown extortion against the Delta variant, but we are seeing much breakthrough infections. The bully quality is that the vaccines proceed to connection a precocious level of extortion against hospitalization and death.”