June 27, 2026

COVID-19 Health Orders To Be Lifted Tuesday In Ohio

© Provided by Patch Ohio is lifting all of its COVID-19 health orders on Tuesday. OHIO — After more than a year of health orders, daily COVID-19 numbers, vaccination reports, protests, counter protests, and more, Ohio is lifting its statewide health orders. On Tuesday, the Buckeye State’s mask mandate and social distancing guidelines will be removed. While individual businesses and school districts can continue to enforce their own masking rules, the state will no longer ask residents to don masks in public. The decision to remove all of the state’s remaining COVID-19 health orders was announced May 12. Gov. Mike DeWine said “individual responsibility must take hold” and urged Ohioans to get vaccinated against the virus. “The danger of remaining unvaccinated is crystal clear. The virus is still here. Our cases are down, but that’s because 42 percent of our population has been vaccinated, and those people can no longer…

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