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Gov. Spencer Cox lifts mask requirement for state buildings

| Updated: 7:56 p.m. Starting Saturday, visitors to state-run liquor stores and other Utah government buildings will be able to walk through the doors mask-free. Gov. Spencer Cox is rolling back the face covering requirement for state workers and visitors to Utah government buildings in light of dropping COVID-19 case counts and growing vaccination numbers, according to an administration memo circulated this week. Employees can keep wearing masks if they prefer until the Utah Department of Health “determines that the COVID-19 pandemic has abated,” Jon Pierpont, Cox’s chief of staff, wrote in the Wednesday memo to executive branch workers. “Mask wearing continues to offer health benefits and is left to the discretion of each individual employee,” Pierpont continued in the memo, first reported by FOX13. “Employees should respect the decisions of others regarding masks.”

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