{"id":111162,"date":"2022-02-25T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T01:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111162"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T01:51:56","slug":"allentown-announces-changes-to-masking-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111162","title":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO MASKING POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Allentown announced today that masks will be optional for employees and visitors entering City property effective Monday February 28.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made with guidance from the Allentown Health Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The City will continue to monitor the status of COVID-19 cases in the community and will reinstate the mask mandate if it is deemed necessary to protect employees and citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Social distancing and frequent handwashing are encouraged, and all plexiglass barriers will remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nGenesis Ortega<br \/>\nCommunications Manager<br \/>\nOffice of the Mayor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov\">http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Allentown announced today that masks will be optional for employees and visitors entering City property effective Monday February 28. The decision was made with guidance from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALLENTOWN ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO MASKING POLICY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/allentown-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}