New Jersey Announces Mask Mandate for Schools

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New Jersey will require students, educators, staff and visitors to wear masks in schools as the next school year begins in a few weeks.

, which will go into effect on Monday, will be required for public, private, and parochial preschool, elementary, and secondary school buildings.

Murphy added that the requirement would be temporary. In June, he said the state would leave it up to individual districts to decide their rules on face masks, accordingHowever, cases have increased sharply in New Jersey since then, doubling during the past two weeks to an average of more than 1,100 per day. Hospitalizations are up 54% as well, the newspaper reported.

“A hopeful spring has become a worrisome summer,” she said. “The conditions have changed, the risk is higher, especially for children.”

 

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