On December 20, 2021, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced D.C.’s COVID-19 Action Plan in response to the unprecedented surge related to the Omicron variant. The highlights of the Action Plan include:
- Reinstating the indoor mask mandate beginning December 21 at 6:00 a.m. until January 31, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.
- Instituting a mandate that all employees, contractors, interns, and grantees of the D.C. government must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, which now includes getting a booster. There will be no test-out option. The D.C. government has not announced the specific deadline yet.
- Expanded testing, including increased availability of PCR tests and new sites to pick up and drop off at-home PCR tests
- Beginning December 22, D.C. Health will launch the Test Yourself Express program. Residents will be able to pick up free at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 testing kits at 8 locations across D.C.
Stay tuned for more – likely in the local jurisdictions near you – coming soon! If you have any questions about this Alert, please contact the Shulman Rogers attorney with whom you regularly work.
Meredith S. Campbell
Chair Employment and Labor Group
Chair Corporate Investigations, Governance & Risk Management
Email [email protected] T(301)255-0550
