MoCo

Montgomery County Council, acting as the Board of Health, will not be introducing a new Board of Health regulation to extend the indoor mask requirement and will allow the current Board of Health regulation to terminate next Monday, February 21 at 11:59pm.

The Montgomery County Board of Education is set to take up the school system’s mask policy at a meeting on February 24, according to WTOP.


MoCo Government

Back on January 25, the Montgomery County Council voted unanimously for a new public health order, which keeps the current indoor mask mandate in place until February 21 at 11:59pm. That mandate will automatically terminate if there is no further action by the Board of Health.

During todays media briefing, council President Gabe Albornoz said, “it’s appropriate for us to be able to move forward with eliminating the mask mandate after the 21st. Especially if the numbers continue to go down.”


Travel

Per Montgomery County:

Montgomery County residents can win a prize this month by sharing what they love about the County’s first rapid transit service— the Flash bus—in the County Department of Transportation’s “Love Flash” photo contest on Twitter.


Health

Per Montgomery County:

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today announced that the state’s COVID-19 positivity rate has dropped below 5%—another critical milestone as Maryland’s health metrics continue to substantially decline.


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