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Town of East Hartford Encourages All Residents and Local Businesses to Adopt Masking in Their Home or Place of Business

Posted on: January 5, 2022 - 10:06am
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East Hartford, CT — On Monday January 3, 2022, the City of Hartford joined several other large Connecticut cities and implemented a mask mandate for the month of January.  A mandatory mask mandate where all citizens participate will curb the spread of Covid-19. 

Yesterday, each of the leaders of East Hartford, South Windsor, Manchester and Windsor Locks, met to discuss the implementation of a mask mandate regionally.  As a collection of East of the River Communities, we encourage Governor Lamont to implement a State-wide mask mandate as we enter a period of escalating transmission, hospitalization, and death.

While the increasing rate of transmission locally warrants such a mandate, our communities are stopping short of mandating masking and instead will continue our policy of masking within Town owned buildings while concurrently, in the strongest terms possible, encourage all residents and every local business to adopt masking in their home or place of business.  Each of our communities are providing KN-95 masks to any resident or business who requests them.

Further, we also want to emphasize the efficacy of the vaccine and especially the booster in reducing the severity of the symptoms and resulting hospitalizations of Covid-19.  In the starkest terms possible, if you are not vaccinated, you are 11 times more likely to die from Covid-19 and its complications.  

Collectively, we want to be clear that we are stopping short of a mandatory mask mandate because we believe that those who can mask, are already following this guidance.

If you are an East Hartford business that would like KN-95 masks for your staff, please contact the Development Department at (860)291-7300. Residents can also pick up masks for themselves and their families at any service station at the East Hartford Public Library, located at 840 Main Street, and at the front desk of the Health Department located on the 2nd floor of Town Hall during business hours.