New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said his state would lift school mask mandates in the coming weeks, aiming for a return to ‘normalcy’ as the surge in coronavirus infections fueled by the Omicron variant abates
Feb 7 - The governors of New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware on Monday said they would lift school mask mandates in the coming weeks, aiming for a return to "normalcy" as a surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the Omicron variant abates in their states.
"Balancing public health with getting back to some semblance of normalcy is not easy. But we can responsibly take this step due to declining COVID numbers and growth in vaccinations," Murphy wrote on Twitter. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said his state would lift its mask mandate on Feb. 28, and Delaware's Carney announced the state's school mask mandate would end on March 31.
Dr. Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University and Baltimore's former health commissioner, said lifting mask mandates was the right step.
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