{"id":101989,"date":"2022-02-28T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=101989"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:01:58","slug":"new-york-to-lift-statewide-school-mask-mandate-by-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/02\/28\/new-york-to-lift-statewide-school-mask-mandate-by-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to Lift Statewide School Mask Mandate by March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101990 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/School-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 <\/span>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that the statewide masking requirement in schools will be lifted by March 2.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing held in Albany, the Democrat cited declining COVID-19 cases and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>She said counties and cities could keep their own mandates in place, and parents could still choose to send their kids to school in masks.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules effective Wednesday apply to children 2 years and older in childcare facilities. New York State has 2.7 million schoolchildren, including about 1 million in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Hochul let a broad mask mandate for most indoor settings expire, but said the schools&#8217; requirement would remain in place. She had promised to revisit the schools question by the first week of March.<\/p>\n<p>The broad mask mandate was implemented during a COVID-19 surge fueled by the omicron variant of the coronavirus in December.<\/p>\n<p>Masks are still required in some places, including public transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that the statewide masking requirement in schools will be lifted by March 2. In a briefing held in Albany, the Democrat cited declining COVID-19 cases and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She said counties and cities could keep their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101992,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101989\/revisions\/101992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}