While denouncing a downstate judge’s ruling that halted his mask mandate for schools, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that he hopes to have further guidance in the days to come on when COVID-19 mask requirements for indoor public settings can be lifted.
Pritzker addressed the issue at two different unrelated news conferences Monday. He not say what specific metrics would prompt him to remove the state’s indoor mask mandate or other mitigations, other than “hospitalizations, hospitalizations, hospitalizations.”“I’ve been saying that for quite some time now,” Pritzker said. “As you know we reached an all-time high in hospitalizations at around 7,400.
While a mask requirement has been in place constantly since shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in settings such as public transportation and airplanes, Pritzker did note that the mask mandate was briefly lifted back in the summer of last year. “Even when, if we remove the requirement that people wear masks in various settings, there may come a time in the future when we would want people to put their masks back on,” he said.
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