UPDATED: Oregon to lift indoor mask mandate March 19, including in schools
Used masks fill a garbage can at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
This article was updated to reflect the lifting of the state executive branch employee vaccination mandate.
Oregonians will no longer be required to wear masks indoors starting March 19, state officials announced Thursday morning, as Covid-related hospitalizations and new infections have declined rapidly in recent weeks.
Schools and school districts will also be able to drop mask mandates…
