Portland: Governor Kate Brown on Tuesday announced the requirements of indoor masks throughout the state because of the inpatient surge and the Coronavirus case, a warning that the state health care system could be overwhelmed.
Starting on Friday, everyone who is 5 years or more in Oregon (regardless of their vaccination status) will be asked to use a mask in the indoor public space.
Brown urged local officials to implement their own mandate, but almost nothing.
The latest health and safety of Coronavirus in Oregon applies to all indoor public spaces, including business, grocery stores, indoor entertainment and fitness centers.
In addition, people who are more than two years old will be asked to wear a mask on the general transit.
There are several exceptions to masks for activities, including eating, drinking, swimming, and sports organizations.
The mask mandate comes as a Coronavirus case and spiral hospitalization out of control, reaching a record number for the country.
On Tuesday, 635 people were hospitalized in Oregon because Coronavirus, exceeded the previous state record of 622 people who were hospitalized during the November spike when the vaccine dose was not available.
Health officials warn that, without new health and safety interventions, the inpatient Coronavirus will far exceed the capacity of the Oregon health system in the next few weeks.
“Oregon faces a surge in covid-19 hospitalization, which consists of inaccurate people, who quickly exceeded the darkest days of our winter surge,” Brown said.
“When our hospital is full, there will be no additional space for additional patients needing to care, whether for Covid-19, a heart attack or stroke, a car collision, or various other emergency situations.” Throughout the pandemic, health officials have described Oregon as a story Success because it has some lowest Coronavirus cases and national mortality rates – mostly partially due to strict state restrictions, which were appointed at the end of June.
When the Delta variant began to spread rapidly throughout the past, Brown turned into regional officials giving them controls Local on whether to implement mask masks.
“From the beginning of the Pandemic leaders, the city and regency has requested local control and the ability to make local public health decisions when it comes to Covid-19,” said Brown this month, the governor announced that the mask would do Needed at K-12 Schools and in the Indoor State Agency Building AP Even.
In addition, the State Health Authority made recommendations throughout the state, vaccinated or not, using a mask while in the public space in the room, but once again stopped returning the mask mandate in the room.
Like the case of barbed Coronavirus, there continues not to act by almost all countries.
Some districts issue masks for district body buildings.
But only one county, multnomah, announced the mask requirements for all public indoor spaces.
The Associated Press returned to 36 of the Oregon District of this month to ask about plans to implement mask masks.
Of the 16 districts who responded, almost all showed that they were worried about getting up in the case of Coronavirus but only one that took out the mask mask in the room and mostly gave “no ‘” when asked if they had a plan to issue one.
“At this point, they are most likely to obey masks have been vaccinated, so I don’t convince the new mandate for all that is effective in loading the Delta variant, ” Gilliam County Judge Elizabeth Farrar Campbell.
While district officials said they felt the decision to implement mask requirements Must be a local decision, some health officials urged the governor to issue a mandate in all states because hospitals were overwhelmed with the entry of Covid-19 patients.
“Ohsu believes the entire state must be masked.
, ” Renee Edwards, head of medical staff at Oregon Health & Science University, said Monday.
“I realized this was being decided at the local level, but the actions of each community would lead to the consequences of a country and even the global level.” In the last call to act, Brown met the district leaders and officials elected last week and urged them to institutionalize Mask requirements.
“The latest knowledge is clear: Even though individuals who are not vaccinated are more likely to contract diseases, both people who are vaccinated and not vaccinated can spread the Delta variant, ‘said Brown.
“Masks are a simple and effective way to ensure you don’t consciously infect friends, family members, neighbors, and colleagues.”