According to the county Department of Public Health, the requirement will be lifted April 1 in conjunction with the state, which is also scrapping the mandate.
The move follows the lifting of other COVID restrictions — such as indoor mask-wearing requirements — in response to dwindling infection and hospitalization numbers.
During the week ending Feb. 26, 6.4% of all COVID specimens that were analyzed for variants turned out to be the result of BA.2, which is a more-infectious offshoot of the Omicron variant that fueled the recent winter surge in infections. That was up from 4.5% the week prior. “The increasing presence of the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant in many regions of this country reminds us that we need to remain vigilant and prepared for the possibility of more cases in the near future,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. “And while discouraging to face this possibility, the best way to blunt another surge in cases from increasing hospitalizations and deaths is to increase vaccination and booster coverage.
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