Covid Restrictions Are Lifting
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🦞 Northeast: New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts yesterday joined Delaware, Connecticut, and New Jersey in announcing an end to mask mandates for schools and other indoor locations in the coming weeks.
🏜️ West: Health officials in California this week said they’re lifting the statewide indoor mask mandate starting February 15, Oregon committed to doing so “no later than March 31,” and Nevada is expected to announce the end of its mandate later today.
🏭 Midwest: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he plans to lift the state’s indoor mask mandate by the end of this month.
🏛️ Federal gov’t: NIAID head Dr. Anthony Fauci said yesterday that the US is “certainly heading out of” the full-blown pandemic phase and signaled federal Covid restrictions could end as early as this year.
🌍 International: UK PM Boris Johnson is planning to end the country’s remaining virus restrictions this month, a growing number of Canadian provinces have moved to lift some of their Covid precautions, and Italy this week began loosening restrictions on people who are vaccinated.
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