Centre County will now require face masks due to being in high coronavirus community levels, according to a release.
As coronavirus cases rise across the counties of Pennsylvania, several Penn State campuses have returned to enforcing indoor masking regulations.
“COVID-19 Community Levels,” a system to identify the coronavirus’ spreading severity in specific counties by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, these levels are measure by weekly new cases, according to the CDC. The levels are low (green), medium (yellow) and high (orange) zones.
Centre County has moved into the “high” level, with the CDC advising the community to mask. It has been in the low level since March, according to the CDC.
“As this sixth wave of COVID-19 spreads across Pennsylvania, it is likely that we will see more campuses move to require masking as their home counties move from yellow or green to orange,” Kelly Wolgast, director of Penn State’s COVID-19 Operations Control Center, said in a release.
State College Area School District will also return to mandatory masking on Tuesday, May 31.
“When a county home to a Penn State campus moves from yellow to orange or vice versa,” Penn State said in the release, “the campus will communicate with students, faculty and staff when the change in masking policy will take effect.”
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