www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Visitors to Gwinnett County government-owned facilities no longer have to wear a face mask to get in the front door.
The county announced on its website Friday that Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson issued an executive order a day earlier to rescind the mask mandate she put in place earlier this year. In the new order, Hendrickson cited a decline in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 in Gwinnett, as well as more than one-third of the county’s residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
It also referenced recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that says people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear a face mask.
“I find that rescinding the Local Emergency Order requiring face masks or face coverings when entering or utilizing county owned or leased facilities is in accordance with CDC guidance, the governor’s executive orders and my local emergency authority and is an appropriate step in the county’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery,” Hendrickson said in the order.
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