Mayor Benjamin Announces Declaration of a State of Emergency
Channel: City of Columbia
Date: 2021-08-05

Mayor Steve Benjamin made an emergency declaration to announce Ordinance 2021-068, declaring a state of emergency in regards to the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, especially regarding its impact on children. Ordinance language will include the following:

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED AND IMPOSED that facial coverings shall be required by all faculty, staff, children over the age of two (2), and visitors, in all buildings at public and private schools or daycares whose purpose is to educate and/or care for children between the ages of two (2) and fourteen (14) to slow the spread of the novel Coronavirus and the disease COVID-19 within the City limits as follows.

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