The US will significantly relax this Friday the recommendations on the use of masks

The health authorities of United States they plan to relax this Friday the recommendations on the use of masks against coronavirus coronavirus covid-19according to various media reports on Thursday.

With the changes, most Americans will move to living in areas where they already the use of masks indoors will not be suggestedThe New York Times explained, citing government officials.

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Until now, the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English) is that everyone who lives in areas with a substantial or high level of transmission of the virus, which currently covers the 95 percent of the counties in the country.

However, many states and cities have already gone ahead and eliminated the obligation to cover the nose and mouth and others have plans to do so. The shift that the CDC will announce, meanwhile, may bring the changes to the places that are being more cautious, mainly large cities on the coast.

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Masks also continue to be required on public transport, including airplanes, based on rules that expire in mid-March, but can be extended.

It is expected that the new recommendations will be based on criteria that will give less importance to the number of cases registered in an area and more to the levels of hospitalization and hospital capacity.

Currently, the United States registers an average of about 76,000 cases of covid-19 daily, levels well below those registered just two weeks ago, as the country has overcome the wave of infections caused by the omicron variant.

Meanwhile, it is estimated that there are some 60,000 people hospitalized with the disease, a figure that has seen a reduction of more than 40 percent in the last two weeks.

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Source: Elcomercio

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