In the US, most of the individuals affected by the COVID-19, including the rate of hospitalization and deaths, are showing a downward trend. As per the data provided by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal health officials could relax the mandate masks shortly.
Moreover, Dr Rochelle Walensky mentioned during the conference in the White House highlighting the current situation of the COVID-19. The agency was considering the data and will soon put the direction in the place that will promote the prevention of the measure while safeguarding public health and hospitals.
Along with this, Walensky states in the statement that the CDC recommends facial masks in indoor places significant or high transmission, which involves 97 percent of the United States nations.
Further added, “We want to provide individuals a break from the things like wearing masks when these metrics are better, and then they have the ability to reach them again should things get more deteriorate.”
The White House coronavirus response coordinator, Jeff Zients, shared an update related to the plan of the Biden administration to provide free COVID-19 testing to the homes of the people from the United States.
As per data provided by him, more than 50 million orders or around 200 million tests have been dispatched.
Apart from this, according to the Johns Hopkins University data, the USA has noticed around 78 million confirmed cases of the COVID-19 as well as over 928,000 casualties.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states over 417 million cases and more than 5.8 million deaths. There is 64.5 percent of the natives of America that has been noticed as fully-vaccinated.
