The ruling only applies to the schools and classrooms relevant to the plaintiffs in the case, not schools across the state.

D.C. Public Schools has shifted students at 11 campuses to virtual instruction in recent days.

All four of the individuals infected were fully vaccinated.

The news comes a week after Maryland reported the region’s first three omicron cases.

Unvaccinated relatives are complicating holiday plans for some D.C.-area residents.

Starting on Monday, Nov. 22, masks will no longer be required in most businesses, but businesses may still choose to implement their own mandate.

About 50% of the unhoused population that uses county services are vaccinated. But county public health workers aren’t quitting.

The codes provide a digital alternative to paper vaccination cards.

The council has been extending the declaration every six months since it originally passed on March 9, 2020.

D.C. and Arlington are both working to make the overdose-reversal drug naloxone more widely available, amid a dramatic rise in overdose deaths.