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North Carolina health officials and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday announced that they will eliminate the statewide mask mandate and ease masking requirements in schools.
The new recommendations urge K-8 schools to require masks for students and staff while they are indoors but allows fully vaccinated high school students and staff to be unmasked.
The mask mandate expires at 5 p.m. on July 30, which is the same time the updated school reopening guidance takes effect.
Cooper and the state’s top public health official, Dr. Mandy Cohen, repeatedly declined to offer specifics on how they’d enforce the recommendations and crack down on districts that move to let all students return to the classroom without a face covering.
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July 21, 2021
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina health officials and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday announced that they will eliminate the statewide mask mandate and ease masking requirements in schools.
The new recommendations urge K-8 schools to require masks for students and staff while they are indoors but allows fully vaccinated high school students and staff to be unmasked.
The mask mandate expires at 5 p.m. on July 30, which is the same time the updated school reopening guidance takes effect.
Cooper and the state’s top public health official, Dr. Mandy Cohen, repeatedly declined to offer specifics on how they’d enforce the recommendations and crack down on districts that move to let all students return to the classroom without a face covering.