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Oficiales de salud bajaron las recomendaciones locales de salud ante el descenso en el número de contagios y hospitalizaciones en las últimas semanas.
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Health officials downgraded their local health recommendations after new cases and hospitalizations have steadily decreased in the last few weeks.
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Masks will be required when COVID-19 transmission is at its highest levels, and they will become optional as community spread slows.
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As dozens of legal battles play out, Texas parents have found themselves caught in confusion about whether their children have to mask up at school.
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Austin Public Health is continuing to implore people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as the number of people in intensive care units continues to exceed the region’s ICU-bed capacity.
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A federal judge Wednesday threw out an attempt by plaintiffs to block Texas' ban on mask mandates ahead of a trial next month.
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Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have long threatened to sue school districts that defy Abbott’s ban on local mask mandates. On Friday, Paxton made good on that threat.
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As Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to punish any school district that defied Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, Republican legislators were largely indifferent on the matter.
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Those districts include several border school districts including La Joya, Brownsville and Hidalgo ISDs — as well as districts in the state’s larger metropolitan areas that later joined the lawsuit, including Houston, Austin and Dallas.
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Superintendent Tom Leonard said all students will be required to wear masks and those who don't comply will be separated from the rest.