US President Biden declares the end of the mask requirement for corona vaccinated people.
How long will mouth and nose protection be required here?
Health Minister Spahn is now positioning himself.
Washington - It is a big step towards normality: The USA has largely lifted the mask requirement for people who have been completely vaccinated against Corona * - outdoors and indoors.
The US health authority CDC announced that distance rules will also be lifted.
However, there are exceptions in public transport and at airports and train stations.
Mouth and nose protection is a politically charged topic in the USA: Ex-President Donald Trump almost never wore one and publicly made fun of mask wearers.
Spahn on the end of the mask requirement in Germany: "Then when the time comes"
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"but as hard" addressed format for an end to mask duty replied Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU): "Then when it's ready." The government had one thing "relatively smarter": "We have not worked with data but with incidences. ”It is unwise to give appointments for relaxation without knowing what the infection process will look like.
Premature loosening is dangerous: "It is important that we maintain this state that we have now fought for."
But what condition must be met for the mask requirement to fall?
If everyone had received a vaccination offer, he was sure, most of the rules would fall, so Spahn.
"This is definitely a point in time for me."
Some US states such as Texas and Florida, however, take a completely different line: They have already completely lifted the mask requirement, including for those who have not been vaccinated.
The CDC guidelines are basically recommendations.
However, they are followed by a large number of states.
Mask requirement falls in the USA for people vaccinated against corona - Biden speaks of a "milestone"
US President Joe Biden * spoke of a "great day for America" and a "milestone" in the fight against the pandemic * The easing was due to the "extraordinary success" of the nationwide vaccination campaign *.
Since taking office, 250 million vaccine doses have been administered, said Biden on Thursday in the rose garden of the White House *.
The US would lead the world with it.
Of the adult US population, just under 59 percent have received at least one vaccine dose so far.
The United States also began vaccinating children and adolescents between the ages of twelve and 15 across the country on Thursday.
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Good things: US President Joe Biden and his Vizin Kamala Harris after they announced the end of the mask requirement for corona vaccinated people.
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Biden reacts to vaccination skeptics in the USA: "vaccinate or wear a mask"
However, the pace of vaccinations for adults had recently decreased - also because of the high number of vaccination skeptics in the USA.
With the extensive abolition of the mask requirement for vaccinated people, the health authorities hope to be able to convince more people to be vaccinated.
Biden said the rule would be "vaccinate or wear a mask" from now on.
According to the CDC, someone is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second vaccination dose, or two weeks after their first vaccination dose if only one injection is required, as is the case with the vaccine from the US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson *.
In the United States, more than 584,000 people have died as a result of an infection since the pandemic began - still by far the highest number in the world.
In the past few months, however, the number of new infections and deaths has fallen significantly every day.
(AFP / frs)
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