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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Just over three years since the original emergency order went into place, Gov. Maura Healey says Massachusetts will end its COVID-19 public health emergency this spring.
Gov. Healey also said she would no longer require executive branch employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The governor's office said the emergency will lapse on May 11 — the same day that the nationwide federal COVID-19 public health emergency will end. The announcement comes just about three years after the original public health emergency declaration by former Gov. Charlie Baker on March 10, 2020.
Healey praised Baker for putting the emergency and vaccine mandate in place, saying they he had "saved countless lives by putting these important measures in place."
In the same statement, Healey also announced that she was introducing legislation which would extend some policies put in place by the public emergency.
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