Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Tuesday issued a mask mandate for all K-12 school and child care facilities to protect against the spread of COVID-19, three weeks after the Democrat said he would leave the decision to individual districts.
The order, which goes into effect Sept. 7, comes amid a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the highly-contagious Delta variant of the virus.
“With case counts increasing, the situation has reached the point that we need to take this action to protect our children, teachers and staff. The science is clear," the state's acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said in a statement. In South Carolina, for example, the state's supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday in two cases involving mask mandates in city of Columbia schools.
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