Utah sets exit plan for mask mandates, COVID-19 restrictions

SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health has set an exit date on which parts of the state can remove mandatory face coverings.

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In an interview with FOX 13, UDOH executive director Rich Saunders said that eight weeks after Utah hit 1.63 million primary doses of its assigned COVID-19 vaccine, low-index counties may lift mask mandates. Currently, just over 400,000 primary doses of the administered COVID-19 vaccine are being administered in Utah.

“There’s an epidemiological endpoint that doesn’t have new cases for 28 days and then there has to be more of a practical end-vision that we get to much earlier where we can make some serious adjustments,” he said.

The latest Saunders Public Health Ordinance …