Pittsboro ends mask mandate

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PITTSBORO — Pittsboro has ended its indoor mask mandate after reinstating it in late September.

COVID-19 cases throughout N.C. have seen a downward trend, including in Chatham County. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 County Dashboard, Chatham County’s positivity rate is at 3%, below the 5% goal the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has established.

However, the CDC has also penned Chatham County as an area of “substantial community spread.” The agency suggests Chatham County residents should continue to wear their masks to lower the community spread.

“Everyone in Chatham County, North Carolina should wear a mask in public, indoor settings,” according to the CDC’s website.

Pittsboro originally reinstated its mask mandate in September due to a rise in COVID-19 cases across Chatham County due to the Delta variant. Chatham COVID numbers have since decreased, and, according to Mayor Jim Nass’ press release, this allowed for Pittsboro to end its masking requirement on Nov. 9.

“As a result of improving COVID-19 trends since the amendment was entered, the undersigned determines that in consideration of all available data related to the impacts of COVID-19 in the Town of Pittsboro, the Amended Proclamation of a State of Emergency related to COVID-19 heretofore entered on Sept. 24, 2021, is no longer necessary and is therefore rescinded and terminated,” Nass said in the release.