Russell County Schools Becomes The Latest To Require Face Coverings

RUSSELL COUNTY, AL- The Russell County Board of Education announced on Monday, August 2, 2021, that masks would be required at educational facilities owned by the Russell County Schools effective Tuesday, August 3, 2021. Russell County becomes the latest in a handful of local districts to require face coverings as data shows an upward trend in COVID-19 cases.

In a release on Monday, the Russell County School District announced that its goal is to ensure the safety of faculty, staff and students. The district continues as it notes that recent CDC updates show and upward trend of COVID-19 cases.

Following the data that has been presented effective Tuesday, August 3, 2021, the Russell County School District will require all persons to include; teachers, students, staff, and visitors that enter an educational facility to wear face coverings. The district says that face coverings will be required inside of locations such as classrooms, common areas, hallways and buses, among others. The masks and face coverings will not be required outside according to the district release.

Russell County becomes the latest local school district to announce that face coverings would be required for students. Students in Muscogee County Schools as well as nearby Phenix City Schools are also required to wear face coverings following recent announcements by those districts.

Like many other districts requiring masks the Russell County School District says they will continue to monitor recommendations of the CDC and local COVID-19 data. The district mentions that hopefully, COVID-19 cases will begin to decrease so that masks can once again become optional.

The Russell County School District issued the following release on Monday.