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NYS To Provide $65 Million to Counties to Enforce Mask Mandate

December 21, 2021 By WRFA Radio Leave a Comment

Governor Kathy Hochul

New York state will provide $65 million to counties to help efforts to enforce the state’s mask mandate that is place until at least January 15.

This announcement comes after many county leaders, who publicly said they supported the mask mandate, said they would not enforce it because they did not have the resources to police mask-wearing in businesses and public indoor places.

Governor Kathy Hochul said about $1 million of that will be given specifically to smaller counties and $2 million for larger ones, “They will be able to use this for creative ways for enforcement. Some are doing things like purchasing thousands of masks and having teams of individuals take them to the stores and the restaurants and their downtown areas to make sure that there’s enough supply when people walk in the door and they can just hand somebody a mask, or if they want to help supplement the staff to make sure that there’s compliance. Whether they want to set up a call center for people to make complaints, whether they want to ship signs to places.”

Hochul also said that state health inspectors will be doing checks of indoor mask policy compliance to help local governments enforce it.

The state will also provide 6 million masks to county emergency services who can then distribute them to various places as needed, like schools.

The state hit another new record of COVID-19 cases with 23,391 — a four-time increase in cases from last week. Among the new cases is the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett. But Hochul said the number of hospitalizations, while higher than they have been lately, are still not near where they were in past surges.

In addition, she said that there is “some stability” with hospital capacity at this point amid staffing shortages.

Hochul encouraged parents to make use of the coming holiday school break to get their children the COVID-19 vaccine and continued to encourage people to get booster shots.

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Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Kathy Hochul, Mary Bassett, Universal mask requirements

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