{"id":38227,"date":"2022-07-15T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38227"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:42:37","slug":"gwinnett-county-employees-are-masking-up-again-due-to-high-covid-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38227","title":{"rendered":"Gwinnett County Employees Are Masking up Again Due to High COVID Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Gwinnett-County\">Gwinnett County<\/a> employees are masking up once again due to an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2022\/06\/23\/augusta-university-health-employee-says-thank-you-to-hospital-staff-for-his-life-saving-coronavirus-care\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37347\">COVID<\/a> spread throughout the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county is requiring all employees\u00a0and strongly encouraging visitors to wear face masks or face coverings while inside county buildings and facilities effective July 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mask requirements for visitors inside courtrooms will be at the discretion of the presiding judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gwinnett County\u2019s COVID-19 Community Level \u2014 which is determined by hospital bed usage, hospital admissions and the total\u00a0number of new COVID-19 cases in the community \u2014 is high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When community levels are high, the CDC recommends wearing a well-fitting mask indoors in public, regardless of vaccination status or individual risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mandatory face mask policy for employees is intended to protect county workers as they provide essential services to\u00a0the public, said County Administrator Glenn Stephens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor two and a half years, our employees have adapted to provide running water, safe roads, emergency response and other\u00a0critical services to residents,\u201d Stephens said. \u201cIt is imperative that we keep our workforce safe to continue to deliver the superior quality services our residents expect and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=8]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwinnett County employees are masking up once again due to an increase in COVID spread throughout the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38228,"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":[8481,8480,8498,8528],"class_list":["post-38227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-masks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227","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=38227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}