It’s official: masks no longer need to be worn in UAE schools.
After months of kids having to keep their noses and mouths covered while inside classrooms it is no longer required, the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority has revealed.
The latest update means that the UAE is one step closer to normality following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Taking to Twitter, the KHDA (Knowledge and Human Development Authority) confirmed that mask wearing in schools will be optional from Wednesday September 28.
In another positive move, the wearing of masks is being scrapped, from Wednesday September 28 too.
Masks remain mandatory in hospitals, mosques and public transport and the other places are down to personal preference, the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority declared today (Monday September 26).
If you are sick, elderly or have COVID-19 symptoms you are advised to wear a mask.
Also, the Al HOSN green pass is mandatory to enter federal buildings and if you are vaccinated you must have the pass updated once monthly and if not, every seven days.
Other updates included that the isolation period for people testing positive for COVID-19 is now 5 days.
Those who have been in close contact with those people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are advised to do a PCR test if they have have symptoms.
Vulnerable and old people who have been in close contact with people testing positive are advised to do a test and monitor their health for seven days.
Mask wearing has slowly but surely been phased out in the UAE in the past few months and
It comes after the last COVID-19 update on August 25, where people expected mask wearing to be ended but instead it was announced that mask wearing was to remain in educational settings.
Social distancing in schools was removed and down to each facility to decide but parents of school children have eagerly been awaiting the news that kiddos no longer have to sit in class wearing face coverings.
Mask wearing has slowly but surely been phased out in the UAE in the past few months and since Saturday February 26, it has been optional to wear face masks in outdoor areas.
However, on Monday June 13 the UAE reinforced the importance of wearing face masks indoors in the ongoing preventative and precautionary measures against COVID-19.
Hooray to the latest COVID-19 announcement.
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