O’FALLON, (AP) – After more than a year of severe restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus in Missouri’s two urban areas, Kansas City, St. Louis and St. Louis County on Friday took major steps to allow businesses, schools and other places to return to some semblance of normal.
Kansas City completely rescinded its emergency order, effective at noon on Friday. Mayor Quinton Lucas said at a news conference that the decision was made “somewhat reluctantly” after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday allowed fully vaccinated Americans to stop wearing masks indoors in most settings.
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by: Juan Cisneros Posted: / Updated: INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Independence Mayor Eileen Weir announced that the city of Independence is lifting the mask mandate and capacity limits in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decision comes a day after the CDC announced that fully vaccinated individuals are no longer required to wear masks indoors or in groups.
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Kansas city Missouri mask mandates in place for over a year have now been lifted, but businesses still have the right to have the right that is to make their own rules about covid restrictions. Kmbc nine Michael Mahoney live in midtown right now, with more on this story.