Archdiocese of Boston to require masks in its schools next month

The Pilot reports that the archdiocese volition travel the state's "universal indoor masking" policies for the 69 schools nether its power erstwhile the schools re-open adjacent month.

That means each students implicit 5 and staffers volition person to deterioration masks indoors done astatine slightest Oct. 1, erstwhile the archdiocese volition re-evaluate.

The bid does not use to astir 30 autarkic Catholic schools successful the area, but the archdiocese says it hopes they would bash the close happening and marque students and staffers disguise up wrong owed to the ongoing hazard of Covid-19. Also:

The Archdiocese of Boston, pursuing the illustration of the Cardinal and the Holy Father, continues to impulse vaccination arsenic the astir effectual mode to bring this pandemic nether power and support families safe.