The US has made it mandatory for all incoming passengers, including those from India, to carry a negative COVID-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion amidst rising number of cases of the new Omicron variant.
President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many parts of the US, and manufacturers warn it will take them weeks to ramp up production, after scaling it back amid plummeting demand over the summer. The latest shortage is another painful reminder that the US
Covid-19 cases are increasing and this can lead the US citizens to face a more deadly variant of Covid-19 than Delta. White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has urged people to get vaccinated.
Masks Not Mandatory in Many U.S States by Hannah Joy on March 6, 2021 at 1:22 AM
Many US states have announced that masks are not mandatory despite continued high levels of new Covid-19 cases nationwide and increasing variant infections.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that she would lift her state s mask mandate in about a month, Xinhua news agency reported.
In a statement, she said that beginning on April 9, wearing masks will be a matter of personal responsibility and not a government mandate .
‘President Joe Biden called that it is a big mistake for states to end mask mandates.’
According to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, the US is seeing a 29% decline in new COVID-19 cases compared to this time last week, the steepest one-week decline the US has seen during the pandemic.