The state’s mask mandate for schools ends Wednesday. The city's mask mandate for schools and vaccine mandate for indoor public venues will likely end on March 7.
Students wear masks as they play in the gymnasium at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on January 5. Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Starting next week, two of New York City’s biggest pandemic restrictions will almost certainly come to an end following the steady drop of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations following the Omicron wave.
“If our numbers continue to show a low level of risk, we will remove the indoor mask mandate for public-school students,” Adams said in a statement. “We will also remove the vaccination requirements for Key2NYC — meaning indoor-dining, fitness, and entertainment venues.” He said that he and other city officials will review the risk data and make their final decision at the end of the week. The vaccine mandate for New York City employees will remain in effect.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines that advised that most Americans could now go mask free, provided they didn’t live in an area where the risk of catching COVID was still high. On Saturday, Hochul announced that the state’s seven-day test-positivity rate had fallen below 2 percent, and that the number of COVID hospitalizations in the state had fallen below 2,000 for the first time since November 14, before the Omicron wave.
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