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U.S. to extend mask requirement on planes, buses and mass transit until April 18

U.S. to extend mask requirement on planes, buses and mass transit until April 18

CBC
Friday, March 11, 2022 2:03 AM GMT

U.S. officials are extending the requirement for masks on planes and public transportation for one more month — through mid-April — while taking steps that could lead to the rule being lifted.

The mask mandate was scheduled to expire March 18, but the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Thursday that it will extend the requirement through April 18.

TSA said the extra month will give the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) time to develop new, more targeted policies that will consider the number of cases of COVID-19 nationally and in local communities, and the risk of new variants.

The TSA enforces the rule, which extends to planes, buses, trains and transit hubs.

As of Thursday, more than 98 per cent of the U.S. population lived in areas with low or medium COVID-19 case levels, meaning that the CDC no longer recommends face masks in public indoor settings.

A decision to eventually scrap the mask requirement — one of the last vestiges of nationwide pandemic rules — has grown more likely in recent weeks as more states, even those led by Democratic governors, relaxed their own mandates for wearing masks indoors, and the CDC eased its recommendations.

That led critics to question why the CDC would allow maskless people to gather in movie theatres and sports arenas but not on planes.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that deciding on the right policy for travel was more complicated than setting recommendations for local communities.

"If you're moving from one zone to another and picking people up … it's a little bit different, and that requires some consultation, which is what (CDC officials) are going to endeavour to do between now and April 18," she said.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week that her agency must study the science around virus transmission "but also the epidemiology and the frequency that we may encounter a variant of concern or a variant of interest in our travel corridors."

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, said he was disappointed in the one-month extension.

"The science does not support this decision," he said. Earlier, Wicker and 30 other Republican senators asked U.S. President Joe Biden to end the mask rule and a requirement that travellers test negative for COVID-19 within a day before flying to the U.S.

Airlines for America, a trade group that represents the largest U.S. airlines, said in a statement that it urged the administration to end both rules.

Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of infection prevention at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said it makes sense to be more cautious on planes, subway trains and buses because "they are designed to efficiently put a lot of people in one place," raising the risk of virus transmission.

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