Archdiocese Of Miami Now Requiring Masks For Mass, Church Gatherings

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – If you program connected going to Mass this play astatine a South Florida Catholic church, you’d amended deterioration a mask.

On Tuesday, January 4th, the Archdioces updated its disguise policy. It said everyone, careless of vaccination status, attending Mass oregon religion gatherings volition beryllium required to usage masks.

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Proper societal distancing should besides beryllium maintained to assistance mitigate the hazard of infection.

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The update comes arsenic the COVID-19 Omicron variant rapidly spreads passim South Florida.

On Saturday, January 1st, the Archdiocese announced the impermanent reinstatement of the usage of masks indoors for each Catholic schoolhouse employees and students implicit the property of two, careless of vaccination presumption oregon parental petition to waive the requirement.

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The Archdiocese said the determination comes aft a “substantial summation successful affirmative cases per 100,000 persons successful the tri-county country successful the past 4 weeks.”

CBSMiami.com Team