DOVER, Del. - Delaware public and private schools will no longer be required to wear masks in school as of Tuesday evening – one month before the mandate was originally set to end.
On Monday, Gov. John Carney announced that masking requirements in Delaware school will no longer be in effect as of 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.
Vaccine or testing requirements for educators and state employees will also expire at 11:59 p.m. Monday. Back in early February, Carney dropped the state’s universal indoor masking requirement and set March 31 as the original deadline to end the requirement on masking in schools.Masking requirements in most state facilities will also be lifted on Wednesday, March 2.
Additional guidance for state employees will be issued later Monday by the Department of Human Resources. Carney says the announcement of the accelerated timeline is consistent new masking guidance issued by the U.S.