Gov. Cox introduces employment initiative; students must still wear masks in school – Cache Valley Daily

Gov. Spencer Cox speaks throughout the weekly COVID briefing at Northrop Grumman in Roy on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Seated is Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson.

Thursday Gov. Spencer Cox as soon as once more took his COVID press convention on the street, this time to Northrop Grumman in Roy the place Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson launched the Returnship Initiative to develop workforce alternatives in Utah, and the Governor signed an government order for state businesses to create extra work alternatives for the brand new initiative.

After all the Governor addressed the persevering with struggle towards the coronavirus.

He stated the state’s Ok-12 college students should proceed to put on masks whereas they’re in school to restrict the unfold of COVID-19. He stated Thursday some dad and mom need the mandate lifted earlier than the top of faculty.

“As you recognize, beneath the invoice that was handed within the senate, the pandemic-ending invoice, masks are nonetheless required in faculties transferring ahead. And there’s a purpose for that,” Gov. Cox exclaimed. “We’re making an attempt to get as many individuals vaccinated as attainable. Clearly, youngsters aren’t at as excessive a threat for hospitalization or loss of life as older folks. However they do transmit the virus, nonetheless.”

The Utah Division of Well being stated the legislation permits the masks mandate for college students to run by June 15.

The Governor stated for the primary time since transmission classes have been created, no counties are within the “excessive” class. He stated of Utah’s 29 counties 23 are within the reasonable transmission class and 6 are in low.

“Because of this the whole lot that we’re doing right here in Utah,” Gov. Cox added, “the whole lot that you’re doing is completely working and we wish you to proceed to do these issues in order that we will drive these case counts down as vaccinations enhance.”

There have been three new COVID-19 deaths statewide since Wednesday and now 2,125 Utahns have misplaced their lives to the coronavirus.

Utah’s coronavirus replace Thursday reviews 487 new optimistic circumstances of the virus together with 38 of them present in northern Utah.

The state well being division stated with 46,011 extra vaccines administered since Wednesday, vaccinations now complete over 1.4 million. Over a half million Utahns at the moment are absolutely vaccinated (521,686).

There have been 180,536 confirmed coronavirus circumstances and 1,962 COVID-19 deaths in Idaho. In three southeast Idaho counties case counts embody 1,147 optimistic circumstances in Franklin County, 367 in Bear Lake County and 347 in Oneida County.