IDPH fully aligns with new CDC masking recommendations

Posted on July 28, 2021
The CDC recommends that all teachers and students in kindergarten through 12th grade mask up as well, regardless of vaccination status. (WJBC file photo)

 

By IIS Radio

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health is adopting new masking recommendations from the CDC.

State public health officials are urging Illinoisans, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask indoors in counties with high transmission rates. All teachers and students in kindergarten through 12th grade are encouraged to mask up as well.

Gov. JB Pritzker was asked Tuesday about the new CDC guidelines.

“We all need to pay close attention and this pandemic is not over,” Pritzker said. “We know that if people remain unvaccinated, there is a greater and greater possibility that you’ll have a variant that ultimately will break through the vaccines that have already been developed, and someone could get really sick as a result.”

According to the CDC, the delta variant spreads twice as easily from one person to another as other strains of the virus.

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