COVID-19 Indoor Masking & Proof of Vaccination


ပပှၤတ၀ၢအတၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့ဒီးတၢ်အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိးပၢၤမ့ၢ်ပတၢ်မၤအခိၣ်သ့ၣ်လီၤ. Tompkins County Health Department (TCHD) န့ၣ်မၤသကိးတၢ်ဘူးဘူးတံၢ်တံၢ်ဒီးပှၤတ၀ၢပှၤမၤဃုာ်သကိးတၢ်တဖၣ်လၢတၢ်ကဒီသဒၢဒီးခီဆၢ၀ဲဒၣ်နိၣ်ဘၢၣ်ခိၣ်ရိၣ်နၣ်ဘဲရၢး(စ) (COVID-19) တၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်အတၢ်ရၤလီၤအသးလၢအပျိာ်လဲအသးန့ၣ်လီၤ.


Changes to statewide mask requirement and local mask advisory

The statewide indoor business mask-or-vaccine requirement that was implemented December 10, 2021, will be lifted starting Thursday, February, 10, 2022. It will remain optional for businesses, local governments and counties to enforce.

The local mask advisory remains in effect. Tompkins County continues to be in a high transmission area as defined by the CDC. TCHD continues to urge mask wearing for all individuals while indoors and around others, as well as other precautions to stop the spread of COVID-19. TCHD is also advising local businesses to continue to ask that patrons wear a mask while indoors and around others. For more information please refer to this February 9 press release.

NYS Mask/ Vaccination Requirement

Masks are required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement, per the NYS Health Commissioner’s Determination on Indoor Masking, released 12/10/21. This determination supersedes previous NYS requirements and is in effect from December 13,2021 to February 1, 2022 (end date was extended).

  • Indoor public place is defined as any indoor space that is not a private residence. 
  • Fully vaccinated is defined as 14 days past an individual's last vaccination dose in their initial vaccine series (e.g., 14 days past the second shot of a two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine; 14 days past the one-shot Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine).
    • WHO-approved vaccines also accepted for these purposes.


Mask Requirement

  • A mask requirement must ensure everyone over age 2 years old and medically able to tolerate a face covering is wearing a mask at all times while indoors.
  • The requirement applies to all non-private residences, unless proof of vaccination is required as a condition of entry.
  • Included are indoor entertainment venues, concert halls, indoor sports stadiums, recreational spaces, restaurants, office buildings, shopping centers, grocery stores, pharmacies, houses of worship and common areas in residential buildings.
  • For food service establishments, unless proof of full vaccination is required for everyone who enters, all employees and patrons must have their mask on at all times regardless of vaccination status, except when eating or drinking.
  • For private events held indoors at a business or venue, e.g., a wedding taking place at a privately-owned restaurant or venue, the business entity/venue must require masking or proof of vaccination as a condition of entry.
  • Information about masks.


Proof of Vaccination Requirement

  • A proof of vaccination requirement must ensure that people have documentation of their vaccination status before entering indoors.
  • Age 12 years and older must show proof of being fully vaccinated.
  • Children ages 5–11 only must show proof of having had at least one dose.
  • Acceptable documentation includes Excelsior Pass or Excelsior Pass Plus, SMART Health Cards issued outside of New York State, full-course vaccination through NYC COVID Safe app, a CDC Vaccination Card, or other official immunization record. Required for anyone age 12 years and older.
  • Parents and guardians can retrieve and store an Excelsior Pass and/or Excelsior Pass Plus for children or minors under legal guardianship.
  • Vaccine/ vaccination FAQ.


Combining requirements is not allowed

  • A business or venue must choose either a vaccine requirement or a mask requirement that must be followed throughout the facility by everyone, every day. It may not allow vaccinated individuals to be unmasked, while requiring masks for unvaccinated individuals.


Effective now

  • The Determination is in effect from Dec. 13, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022. Businesses, venues, and other workplaces are urged to familiarize themselves with this directive and implement a mask or vaccination requirement immediately
  • Businesses may ask questions directly to the Environmental Health Division (EH) using this form.
  • Complaints may be submitted to EH by the public using this form.


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Additional information and resources


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လံာ်လဲၢ်တၢ်ကွဲးနီၣ်လၢတၢ်ကအိၣ်လီၤဖျီၣ်ယံၤဒီးပှၤဂၤဒီးတၢ်အိၣ်လီၤဖျီၣ်ကွၢ်ဟုၣ်တၢ်ဆါအတၢ်ကလုၢ်တဖၣ်လၢကရၢသၢဖုတဖုတဖၣ်လၢအပာ်ဃုာ်တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤမ့တမ့ၢ်ကၠိ

ပှၤဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်အတၢ်ဃုသ့ၣ်ညါန့ၣ်အါတက့ၢ်အိၣ်ကတီၢ်လံအသးလၢပှၤလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်လၢအသးအိၣ် 18-64 နံၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်ဒီးနီၢ်တဂၤစုာ်စုာ်န့ၣ်တဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်လီတဲစိတၢ်ကိးဒီးတၢ်အိၣ်လီၤဖျီၣ်စီၤစုၤယံၤဒီးပှၤဂၤအတၢ်ကလုၢ်လၢတၢ်ဆါအပှၤဃုသ့ၣ်ညါတၢ်တဂၤအအိၣ်လၢၤဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အလီၢ်,ကလူၤပိာ်ထွဲ၀ဲဒၣ် PCR တၢ်စဲပနီၣ်အိၣ်တၢ်မၤကွၢ်လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ခီဖျိအံမ့(လ)မ့တမ့ၢ်လီတၢ်ကစီၣ်အဖုၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. လံာ်တီလံာ်မီတဖၣ်လၢတၢ်ရဲၣ်လီၤဃာ်အီၤလၢလာ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်အုၣ်ကီၤလၢအဖိးသဲစးလၢတၢ်ကဟ့ၣ်ထီၣ်ဆူနတၢ်မၤကစၢ်အအိၣ်မ့တမ့ၢ်ကၠိအအိၣ်လၢနၤမ့တမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအဒိးသန့ၤထီၣ်အသးလၢနၤန့ၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်လံတၢ်ကလုၢ်လၢတၢ်ကအိၣ် လီၤဖျီၣ်အိၣ်စီၤစုၤယံၤဒီးပှၤဂၤ (နမၤကွၢ်နသးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် အိၣ်လီၤဖျီၣ်ကွၢ်ဟုၣ်တၢ်ဆါ (နမ့ၢ်ပှၤအိၣ်ဘူးဘၣ်ဒီးပှၤတဂၤလၢအမၤကွၢ်အသးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ).

  • လၢတၢ်ကပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်နီၢ်ကစၢ်အတၢ်မၤကွၢ်သးလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဆူ Tompkins County
    • မၤပှဲၤအီၤဒီးတီၣ်ထီၣ်အီၤလၢတၢ်ကပာ်ဖျါနတၢ်မၤကွၢ်အစၢလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ် ဆူ Tompkins County Health Department တက့ၢ်. 
    • တဘျီဖဲလံာ်တကွီၢ်ဒိအံၤတၢ်တီၣ်ထီၣ်အီၤမ့ၢ်၀ံၤ,နကဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်အံမ့(လ)လၢအိၣ်ပာ်စၢၤတခါဃုာ်ဒီးတၢ်နဲၣ်ကျဲဒီးလံာ်လဲၢ်လၢဆူညါလၢအဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးနတၢ်တီၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မၤကွၢ်လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဆူTompkins County Health Department န့ၣ်လီၤ. နတၢ်အိၣ်လီၤဖျီၣ်ယံၤဒီးပှၤဂၤအကတၢၢ်ဖဲယဲၢ်သီတသီလၢနမၤ၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်မၤကွၢ်မ့တမ့ၢ်ဖဲနတၢ်ဆါပနီၣ်မ့ၢ်စးထီၣ်,တခါခါလၢအကဲထီၣ်ဆိလၢညါန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်လူၤပိာ်ထွဲဆူညါန့ၣ်နတဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်အီၤလၢ TCHD အအိၣ်ဘၣ်.
    • ဖဲနမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒီး တၢ်ဆါပနီၣ်တဖၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ်တၢ်ဆါပနီၣ်မ့ၢ်နးထီၣ်အခါ,ဆဲးကျိးဘၣ်နတၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်အပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဒီးမၤန့ၢ်တၢ်ကွၢ်ထွဲကဟုကယာ်ဆူညါတက့ၢ်.
  • NYSDOH လံာ်တီလံာ်မီလူၤပိာ်၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်မၤကွၢ်အဒၢးလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်စဲပနီၣ်လၢအပာ်ဖျါအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်မ့တမ့ၢ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဘူးဘၣ်ဒီးပှၤအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

File a complaint related to indoor masking or proof of vaccination (Tompkins County only)  

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For Businesses Only: ask a question related to indoor masking or proof of vaccination (Tompkins County only)  

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