Gov. Phil Murphy is set to announce that New Jersey students in grades K-12 and staff will be required to wear masks in schools. It's a reversal from a few weeks ago when Murphy said it would take a “deterioration” of COVID-19 data to require masks.
The decision to require masks is an about-face from just a few weeks ago when Murphy said it would take a “deterioration” of COVID-19 data to require masks. Murphy’s spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna confirmed that the governor planned to announce the requirement.. The seven-day rolling average of new cases climbed over the past two weeks from 512 on July 20 to 1,104 on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
It’s unclear whether any of New Jersey’s roughly 600 school districts will be permitted to depart from Murphy’s expected order on Friday. New Jersey was an early hotspot in March 2020, and the state’s positive cases and hospitalizations haven’t reached the high levels they did early on in the outbreak, but they’re higher than they were a few months ago as vaccinations became more widely available.
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