Many Hamilton County residents have been looking forward to tomorrow morning since last July. It’s the day when they can finally ditch the mask they’ve had to wear since last summer to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
When Mayor Jim Coppinger extended the county mask mandate last month, he said he would lift it on April 28.
Now it’s up to us.
Businesses, manufacturing plants, schools and churches still can set their own mask requirements, but the requirement of people to wear masks or facial coverings over the mouth and nose “at all times when indoors in all public and private buildings and when outdoors,” unless they can “substantially maintain appropriate social distancing from others outside of the person’s household” will be lifted.
“As we said from the beginning,” Coppinger said last month, “the mask mandate would be temporary, but [it] would stay in place until we could accomplish several things. And we feel like we have.”