North Carolina, Winston Salem – Winston-Salem’s citywide indoor mask mandate will be lifted on March 1, city officials said today.
This step will be taken even though the city has not met the Covid-19 metric criteria set by Mayor Allen Joines in October.
Meanwhile, Governor Roy Cooper encouraged school boards and local governments to end their mask mandates by March 7, if key Covid-19 metrics continue to decline at the current rate.
Joines said Oct. 29 that in order to lift the city of Winston-Salem’s mask-wearing mandate that was reinstated in August, the city needed to have a positive Covid-19 test rate of 5% or less for at least two years. weeks, and have an average of fewer than 10 new cases per 100,000 people over five days.
Covid figures in Forsyth
In Thursday’s update covid-19 dashboard from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Forsyth positive test rate in the last 14 days was 17.9%.
The same update had Forsyth averaging 50 cases per 100,000 people in the most recent two-week period. This figure is lower than the 82 cases per 100,000 people in the report on Friday of last week.
Latinos with Covid in Forsyth
Regarding Latinos, the NCDHHS dashboard notes that until today 12,062 cases of Covid have been registered, that is, 20% of the total cases in Forsyth County.
Regarding vaccination, at least 28,375 Latinos have received the first doses of the Covid vaccine in the county, 50% of all those vaccinated.
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