Seventh and eighth grade students attend classes at Olive Vista Middle School on January 11 in Sylmar, California Los Angeles students will be required to wear a non-woven face covering.
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Seventh and eighth grade students attend classes at Olive Vista Middle School on January 11 in Sylmar, California Los Angeles students will be required to wear a non-woven face covering.
Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images
Los Angeles Unified School District bans students from wearing only cloth face coverings on campus as the country grapples with a continued increase in COVID-19 infections caused by the omicron variant.
District update instructions notification Sixth, ask students to wear “non-fabric masks, nose coverings” both indoors and outdoors. Staff will be required to wear surgical grade masks or higher.
Students and staff will be able to receive masks from the district if they need them.
“Our school [coronavirus infection] Rates have gone down but we are continuing to be diligent and agile in creating the safest learning environments,” school district spokesman Shannon Haber told. LA time.
The new policy went into effect on Monday, the newspaper reported.
According to public health experts, Cloth masks popular at the start of the pandemic may no longer be enough to prevent you from catching the highly contagious omicron variant. Instead, officials recommend using N95 respirators or similar high-filtering respirators to enhance protection from the virus.
Omicron is now the dominant strain of COVID in the US, accounting for more than 99% of cases, According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Los Angeles recorded more than 39,000 new COVID cases Saturday amid the highest spike to date in the pandemic over the past few weeks, although the death toll is still far below the season’s number. winter last year.
The country’s second-largest school system also requires weekly COVID-19 testing for all students and staff, and they must present a negative test to enter school.
