Individual businesses can still decide to keep mandates in place if they choose, but as of Monday the city will no longer require they check guests’ vaccine cards.
New York City’s decision to lift some of its strictest mandates comes as government officials around the U.S. have been easing COVID-19 guidelines and signaling that the risk of virus spread is retreating — at least for now.
Adams, a Democrat, stressed that New York City’s mandates could be re-imposed if a new variant emerges that, like omicron, poses a special danger. Adams said parents could continue to send their kids to school with face coverings if they wished but said, “We want to see the faces of our children. We want to see their smiles.”“Our doctors agree with the city’s medical experts that this is the right time to safely move from a mask mandate to an optional mask system,” United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement following Adams’ announcement.
More than 137,500 public school students and 40,300 teachers have gotten the virus since the start of the school year. Not all of those places are ready to drop the restrictions. The Broadway League has said it will maintain mask and vaccination requirements in all its theaters at least through April 30.
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