Dougherty County officials announced Thursday that the county will again be requiring masks in all county buildings and facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move comes as the delta variant of COVID-19 is causing a new coronavirus surge — primarily among the unvaccinated population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dougherty County was an early hot spot in for coronavirus last year after several residents caught the virus while attending two large funerals in Albany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dougherty County has reported 129 new cases of coronavirus in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The county’s mask mandate follows similar mask mandates in Savannah<\/a> and Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dougherty County officials announced Thursday that the county will again be requiring masks in all county buildings and facilities. The move comes as the delta variant of COVID-19 is causing a new coronavirus surge — primarily among the unvaccinated population. Dougherty County was an early hot spot in for coronavirus last year after several residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286],"tags":[8868,8481,8480,9888,8473,8474,9485],"class_list":["post-27783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-albany","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-dougherty-county","tag-media","tag-sun","tag-top","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}