Covid-19 in the United States: Texas lifts the obligation to wear a mask
A customer walks into a store in Dallas, Texas on March 2, 2021. AP - LM Otero
Text by: RFI Follow
2 min
43,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Texas, but the governor decreed that this state was on the brink of being out of the pandemic on Wednesday.
Masks are no longer mandatory and shops, restaurants, bars can open at 100% capacity.
Publicity
Read more
With our correspondent in Houston
,
Thomas Harms
With more and more vaccines available, more testing capacity, more protective equipment, the governor of Texas believes that from now on, it is up to everyone to be responsible for Covid-19 and more to the state .
In practice, a department store chain (HEB) has decided to no longer recommend wearing masks, another (Kroger) on the contrary will continue to impose it on everyone.
Each business will in fact decide, according to its customers, what will change or not.
A Houston nightclub thus promoted itself by announcing on Instagram an evening without masks from midnight one this Wednesday, but at the call of many elected officials, this club, the Concrete Cowboys, agreed to cancel its evening.
Because with only 11% of the population vaccinated in Texas, health professionals argue that it is still too early to reopen and the decision of the Texan authorities has raised the consternation of elected officials in most cities.
But the city of Austin is going further, it has decided to continue fining people who do not wear masks on the street.
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
United States
Coronavirus