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More mask mandates have been lifted in cities around the U.S., as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline.
New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks announced Friday that public school students would be permitted to remove their masks outside starting next week.
NYC SCHOOLS DROP OUTDOOR MASK MANDATE, INDOOR MANDATE REMAINS
“I am so pleased that we are able to make this exciting announcement and safely allow students and staff to remove their masks when outdoors at NYC public schools,” he said in a news release.
Students must continue to keep masks on indoors, though New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she would revisit the issue of school mask rules in the first week of March.
“Eventually we’re going to move to the place to ease up on many of these mandates so we can get back to a level of normality that we are looking for,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams told WPIX on Friday.
FILE — Teachers line up their students before entering PS 179 elementary school in the Kensington neighborhood, Sept. 29, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City public school students will be allowed to remove their masks outside starting next week but must keep them on indoors for now.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Thursday that masks would no longer be required in indoor spaces effective March 1.
In Oregon, the state’s mask requirement for indoor public places and schools is set to be lifted on March 19, according to officials.
In addition, Gov. Kate Brown said Thursday she will rescind her statewide COVID-19 emergency declaration on April 1.
The city’s school system has its own mandate that must be lifted in coordination with the state.
SCHOOL MASK MANDATES END IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AS OTHER STATES LOOK AT REMOVING VACCINATION RULES
“Lifting Oregon’s COVID-19 emergency declaration today does not mean that the pandemic is over, or that COVID-19 is no longer a…
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