The declaration began on Aug. 3 and will be in effect for the next 60 days.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated visitors to Henry County facilities, including employees, are required to wear a face mask, submit to temperature screenings and adhere to social distancing requirements.
Board of Commissioners Chair Carlotta Harrell said the county will follow Centers for Disease Control recommendations, which include mask wearing indoors for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals if in a high transmission area.
Henry County has been deemed such by the Georgia Department of Health due to the increase in COVID-19 infections.
âI have to do whatâs necessary for the residents of the county,â Harrell said. âWe have to start somewhere, and weâll continue to make determinations based on data to hopefully get this spike under control.â
President Joe Biden on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on some Republican governors to do more for their constituents as the highly contagious Delta variant rips across their states.
The remarks came as Biden said in a speech on Tuesday that the US has shared more than 100 million vaccine doses globally, and announced a number of new steps taken since last week to try to get more Americans vaccinated and slow the spread of coronavirus. The new efforts included requiring that all federal employees must attest to being vaccinated against Covid-19 or face strict protocols and encouraging states to provide cash incentives to people to get vaccinated.
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Luis Vertentes, a tenant from East Providence, R.I., stands before Judge Walter Gorman during an eviction hearing, on Monday after the lifting of a federal moratorium on being ousted for unpaid rent plead their case in court. Charles Krupa/AP
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Tenants, who crowded housing courts amid concerns about a spike in evictions, got a reprieve Tuesday after the Biden administration announced an eviction ban that lapsed over the weekend would be extended 60 days in most of the country.
The move will protect areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives, making the drama that played out a day earlier in Rhode Island, Ohio, North Carolina and elsewhere in the country short-lived.
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WAKE GOP PUSHES RECKLESS PETITION ON SCHOOL MASKING, VACCINES : The Wake County Republican Party is trying to get 5,000 signatures by Monday on a petition asking the district to make face masks optional. The petition had more than 3,700 signatures as of early Monday afternoon. “Parents who wish to send their children to school in masks should do so if they choose,” according to the petition sponsored by the Carolina Teachers Alliance, a group that’s trying to be a conservative alternative to the N.C. Association of Educators. The petition also says Wake shouldn’t promote students getting the COVID-19 vaccine or allow vaccination clinics to be held on school property. While most doctors and medical groups say the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, the petition claims that they are “experimental medical treatments.”
The surge of Covid-19 fueled by the Delta variant and low vaccination rates is sending the country backward in the pandemic, with hospitalizations reaching wintertime levels.
For the first time since February 27, more than 50,000 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized Monday, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The 50,625 hospitalizations were more than triple the number from one month ago, when about 16,000 patients were hospitalized.
At this point, it might not be possible to reach herd immunity, the director of the National Institutes of Health said. At the current pace of vaccinations, it will take until mid-February to reach all of the remaining eligible people with at least one dose, a CNN analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data found.