President Joe Biden’s administration will extend requirements for travelers to wear masks on airplanes, trains, and in transit hubs through April 18 as public health authorities review when mask requirements should be dropped, the White House confirmed, according to Reuters.
The move extends the current requirements that were set to expire on March 18 by a month.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted in statements Thursday that CDC will work with other government agencies “to help inform a revised policy framework for when, and under what circumstances, masks should be required in the public transportation corridor.”
Like recent guidance regarding masks in other settings, the CDC says any revision will be based on the levels of COVID-19 at the community level, as well as on the risk of new variants, national data, and the latest science.
The agency left the door open to earlier termination of the policy, should the science support that.
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