Mask-free Monday comes to Japan as government eases COVID guidelines

📆 3/13/2023 1:02 AM

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The smiles and screams at Tokyo Disneyland may be more obvious on Monday as the amusement park and much of Japan relaxes face mask norms that have defined the three-year COVID pandemic

bare faces on public transport last month. The United States and England halted most mask mandates early last year.

Chief government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said last week that masks would no longer be required at Cabinet meetings starting Monday and that decisions on the coverings would be left up to individual workspaces. Japan's COVID vaccination rate stands at more than 80% and cases have ebbed after an eighth wave of infections that peaked in early January.

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