The US CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced new guidelines such as eliminating the need to wear masks in principle in areas where the spread of the new coronavirus is calm.
On the 25th, the CDC announced new guidelines for each region to indicate whether masks need to be worn.
In the new guidelines, the level of infection is divided into three stages for each region, taking into consideration the ratio of newly infected people to the population, the ratio of newly hospitalized people, and the availability of beds in medical institutions. In principle, masks are not required in areas of calm, with the lowest and moderate levels of spread.
Areas with the most severe levels of spread continue to require masks.
In addition, we have changed the guidelines for wearing masks at schools, which we have been asking for uniformly, so that we only require them to be worn in areas where the spread of infection is the most serious.
The new guidelines will eliminate the need to wear masks in areas where more than 70% of the American population now lives.
"The number of people who have been immunized by vaccination and infection with the virus has increased, and the risk of aggravation is lower than before due to the spread of therapeutic drugs," said Warensky, director of the CDC. It is said that it will focus on measures to avoid the burden on the institution.