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Mask mandates are set to be eased in airport terminals across Australia after health officials found the rule was “no longer proportionate”, just days beforeThe Australian Health Protection Principal Committee said inthat it was proposing mask wearing in airport terminals “no longer be mandated” from as early as this Friday night:
Despite the proposal to no longer make them compulsory, the AHPPC said it “continues to strongly recommend continued mask wearing in airport terminals and other indoor settings, especially where physical distancing is not possible”. The federal government responded to the new advice, saying it anticipated the travelling public would “notice this change in the days following Friday as individual state and territory jurisdictions make the necessary changes to their public health orders”., thanked “the thousands of people who work in our airport terminals around Australia who have followed the rules to keep us safe” and “the travelling public for continuing to comply with the ongoing regulations”.
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