Animal shelters are closing in Mobile and Birmingham due to the fact of a the latest COVID-19 exposures.

According to the Cellular County Animal Shelter, all shelter staff are below quarantine for 10 days by means of the stop of the month. A reopening day is tentatively scheduled to reopen to the public on Monday, August 31. The Higher Birmingham Humane Society’s Snow Travel and Adoption and Education and learning Middle is also closed to the community until August 31, owing to staffing shortages and protective quarantines due to the fact of the virus.

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Throughout the closure, Mobile County officials say that only critical personnel will adhere to protocols like those carried out in the course of extreme climate activities to manage small functions:

• The shelter and the county’s Animal Control Department will be sanitized, and masks worn by any essential staff undertaking critical function all through this time.