mask guidance

Massachusetts health officials relaxed the state’s mask guidance Tuesday to advise that only high-risk individuals and the unvaccinated should wear face masks indoors. Health officials are no longer advising vaccinated people without pre-existing conditions or weakened immune systems to wear masks indoors, which was the guidance they issued in December. The Department of Public Health is still urging people...

The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

More than 1 million coronavirus cases have now been confirmed in Massachusetts, according to state Department of Public Health data released Tuesday, as the omicron variant drives the latest surge in numbers. With 9,228 cases announced Tuesday, the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 stands at 1,002,266, the agency announced. There were also…