{"id":39019,"date":"2022-06-06T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/schnucks-workers-required-to-wear-masks-in-st-louis-city-county\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:56:30","slug":"schnucks-workers-required-to-wear-masks-in-st-louis-city-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/schnucks-workers-required-to-wear-masks-in-st-louis-city-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Schnucks workers required to wear masks in St. Louis city, county"},"content":{"rendered":"
ST. LOUIS – Employees at Schnucks stores in St. Louis and St. Louis County are required to wear facemasks due to increasing cases, the company announced this week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
In a post on its website, Schnucks said it is requiring employees and vendor partners to wear masks inside stores in regions where the CDC considers COVID-19 community levels to be high. Both St. Louis and St. Louis County met that classification.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
The stores that are affected by the change are as follows:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
“Schnucks has posted signage at these locations strongly encouraging customers to wear a face covering for CDC guidance and will continue to offer complimentary facemasks to all customers at all locations,” the post said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
The CDC suggests the following steps in regions with a high level of COVID-19 in the community:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, director of health for the city of St. Louis, addressed the increase in her virtual town hall on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
“We’re now in the high transmission and community level in the city of St. Louis,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
The city was previously at moderate COVID-19 transmission levels.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Right now, she says the number of new reported COVID-19 cases is as high as it was during last summer’s delta variant surge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
“It’s hard to get accurate numbers because people are not testing as much as they used to. Those numbers have plummeted,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ST. LOUIS – Employees at Schnucks stores in St. Louis and St. Louis County are required to wear facemasks due to increasing cases, the company announced this week. In a post on its website, Schnucks said it is requiring employees and vendor partners to wear masks inside stores in regions where the CDC considers COVID-19 …<\/p>\n