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New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that a dramatic decline in COVID-19 infections could lead to lifting vaccination mandates for restaurants, bars and movie theaters by March 7.
He made the announcement shortly after Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her own plan to cancel the state’s mandate to bring masks to schools, which goes into effect Wednesday.
Adams said the city will also lift the mask mandate for about 1 million school-age children in the nation’s largest school system.
More than a million New York City school children will return to class tomorrow. If our numbers continue to show a low level of risk, we will remove the indoor mask mandate for public school students, effective Monday, March 7.
We will make a final decision on Friday, March 4.
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 27, 2022
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