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New York (AP) – Mayor Bill de Blasio annouced Monday that despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidelines on mask wearing, all New York City public school students must continue to wear masks in the classroom.
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“For now we’re sticking with the idea that wearing the masks is a smart thing to do in schools,” de Blasio said. “We’ll keep assessing as we go along, but for now it still makes sense.”
“We’ve been constantly working with the CDC but we also in this case have been very careful given everything the city’s been through,” the mayor added.
The CDC’s new guidance says that teachers and students who are vaccinated don’t need to wear masks inside of schools. It also recommends keeping at least three feet of distance between people inside of buildings., but social distancing shouldn’t get in the way of fully reopening.
If social distancing is hard to do, the CDC recommends that schools should take additional precautions, such as indoor masking.
