The US Transportation Safety Administration extended the mandatory mask regime on transport on April 30 until September 13, the acting president said. head of management Darby Ledjoy.
“The Transportation Safety Administration is extending the requirement to wear face masks on all US transportation networks until September 13, including at airports, on airplanes, on regular buses, and railways,” he said.
According to the head of the department, Washington’s requirements for the use of masks in all transport networks are aimed at minimizing the spread of coronavirus in transport. By now, about half of all adults have received their first dose of the vaccine, so masks remain an important tool in the fight against COVID-19, Lejoy explained.
At the same time, the US federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allowed all Americans to be on the street without masks, whether they were vaccinated against coronavirus or not.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 32.3 million cases of coronavirus infection have been reported in the United States, and almost 576 thousand people have died.