2 Montgomery County school districts requiring masks starting Friday

In response to the Cheltenham College District, the CDC moved Montgomery County into the “excessive” group stage on its COVID-19 knowledge tracker.

Attributable to this modification and steerage from the Montgomery County Workplace of Public Well being, masks are actually required indoors and on public transportation beginning Friday.

“Please bear in mind to ship your youngster to highschool with a masks. In case your youngster does not have a masks, they’re accessible within the nurse’s suite. As soon as the county has returned to ‘medium’ on the information tracker, the district will pivot again to ‘masks really useful.’ We’re nonetheless providing Check to Keep and Masks to Keep for eligible college students and employees,” the district mentioned Thursday night time.

The Decrease Merion College District can also be requiring masks indoors and on buses.

In response to the newest knowledge, Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties are additionally within the “excessive” group stage, although no different districts are requiring masks right now.

Philadelphia stays within the “medium” group stage, in accordance with the CDC.

Well being officers say the variety of Philadelphians testing optimistic for COVID-19 is now as excessive because it was in the course of the first week of February and has greater than doubled within the final three weeks.

Hospitalizations within the metropolis have additionally doubled.

Philadelphia officers say they don’t seem to be reinstating the masks mandate right now, however they’re recommending carrying masks indoors.