Milwaukee County Zoo COVID policy update: Masks required indoors

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County Zoo introduced on Monday, Might 23 an opportunity in its masks coverage.

Now, masks are required inside buildings for all visitors ages three and up. Masks should not required exterior. 

The masks coverage likelihood comes simply days after the Milwaukee Well being Division issued a metropolis masks advisory in accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s suggestions. Milwaukee County additionally moved into the CDC’s “excessive” stage of COVID-19 neighborhood unfold.

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The advisory is a request – not an order. Companies can require masking inside, however many locations are leaving it as much as patrons. The advisory applies to all people – vaccinated or not – in Milwaukee over the age of two who can medically tolerate carrying a masks. 

Milwaukee County is now in excessive transmission as a result of instances and hospitalizations are rising. Within the metropolis of Milwaukee over the previous week, there have been a median of 272 confirmed instances per 100,000 folks.