'It's your fault that we're going back to having an indoor mask mandate,' he said at a news conference.
"The Delta variant is here, and it poses a serious threat to our unvaccinated residents," said Dzirasa, according to the mayor's office in a press release."I'm speaking to you not just as the health commissioner, but as a mother of a child that is too young to be vaccinated. We have the ability to slow the spread COVID-19 and the actions we all take collectively will protect the most vulnerable among us.
COVID cases have increased around 374 percent within the past four weeks as of Wednesday, according to the mayor's office, with over 50 cases per 100,000 residents during a seven-day average for the period between July 27 and August 2.he will not impose a new mask mandate or order businesses to close even as the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through his state.
"Mask mandates and shutdowns will not be able to eradicate the threat of the virus, of this Delta variant," Hogan said during a news conference. Instead, he said, vaccines are the most effective weapon in the battle against the virus and COVID-19. The state's seven-day average of coronavirus cases is up by more than 200 percent in recent weeks, according to data from the Maryland Department of Health. Nearly all the new cases are suspected to have been caused by the Delta variant.contacted the mayor's office for further comments, but didn't hear back in the time of publishing.
Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott blamed unvaccinated people for taking the city back to the indoor mask mandate that will go into effect starting Monday.
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