A team of volunteer health professionals has been deployed to polling stations around the state to provide health and safety guidance intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to voters and poll workers.

Around 200 health ambassadors initially volunteered to answer questions about COVID-19 safety precautions, if asked, and hand out face masks and hand sanitizer at polling places, Dr. Cliff Mitchell, director of the Environmental Health Bureau for the Maryland Department of Health, told Capital News Service.

The ambassadors are not there to provide any clinical advice, Mitchell said, but “to try to help people feel comfortable and aware, as they vote, of the things that will keep them, voting officials and others safe.”

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