California Brings Back Indoor Mask Mandate As COVID-19 Cases Surge After Thanksgiving

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California nationalist wellness leaders are reinstituting a cosmopolitan indoor disguise requirement.

Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary, announced the mandate connected Monday. He cited statistic that amusement a important summation successful COVID-19 cases crossed the authorities since the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Many CA counties already do, but present each indispensable necessitate masks successful indoor nationalist spaces.

— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) December 13, 2021

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The mandate means everyone, careless of their vaccination status, is being directed to deterioration a disguise indoors.

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Further, much requirements are besides being enactment successful spot for radical who are unvaccinated and trying to be alleged mega-events similar concerts and sporting events. People who are unvaccinated volition present request to amusement impervious of a antagonistic COVID-19 trial 48 hours oregon little earlier the event.

Along with the surge successful COVID-19 cases, the requirements travel astatine the aforesaid clip that the omicron variant has spiked fears of a caller wave.

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The requirements volition spell into effect Dec. 15 and volition enactment successful spot until Jan. 15, 2022.

CBS13 Staff