Students will no longer have to wear masks while they’re outdoors on public school grounds, New York City officials announced Friday morning.
“Throughout the pandemic, our schools have remained some of the safest spaces for our students and staff, thanks to our gold standard health and safety protocol,” Banks said Friday. “I am so pleased that we are able to make this exciting announcement and safely allow students and staff to remove their masks when outdoors at NYC public schools.”“We’re going to pull back on children wearing masks outdoors,” he said.
Adams would need the state to remove its mandate for indoor masking at schools to do so. State health officials for outdoor masking for students ahead of this school year, and the city’s outgoing rule was a holdover from former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
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