Mask mandates may be returning to these places:
gettyravelers might have to hold on to their face masks for a while longer. As the daily number of reported Covid-19 cases is moving upward again in the United States, driven by the highly transmissible omicron BA.2 subvariant, there are signs that mask mandates may stick around on the travel landscape.
At the same time, testing has also significantly dropped off, so getting a handle on a true number of daily infections has become more difficult for officials. According to the University of Washington’s latest estimate, the true number of daily infections is likely to be nine times higher that what is being reported. That enormous gap amounts to roughly 282,531 Covid cases going unreported just today.
In Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser allowed vaccination and indoor masking mandates to expire at the end of February, and the city health department stopped reporting daily Covid case numbers in March. Within weeks, outbreaks in the nation’s capital resulted in some very high-profile Covid-positive cases among Cabinet secretaries and Congress members along with Mayor Muriel Bowser herself. And last week, two prominent universities in the D.C.
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