Denver Public Schools to require masks for students, teachers and staff

Denver Public Schools volition necessitate students, teachers, schoolhouse unit and visitors to deterioration masks careless of their vaccination status, officials announced Tuesday.

The request volition spell into effect Aug. 9, territory spokesperson Will Jones said successful a quality release. It applies to anyone gathering with unit oregon students but not those moving unsocial successful offices oregon different areas.

The announcement comes conscionable a time aft Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said helium volition require nationalist and backstage schoolhouse staff — alongside metropolis employees and different backstage employees — to get vaccinated. Both decisions stem from expanding COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations crossed the state arsenic the delta variant continues to spread.

Masks volition not beryllium required successful outdoor settings astatine schools, Jones said.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.