The nation's last remaining indoor mask mandate will be dropped by Hawaii later this month.
A mannequin wears a protective mask at a market.
The current mandate, which requires masking indoors at businesses or work, is set to end on March 25. Ige said that the state's current emergency declaration is scheduled to expire.
Hawaii's seven-day average new Covid case rate has plummeted since late January, when a surge caused by the coronaviruses omicron variant was at its zenith.
Ige cast as proof of Hawaiians willingness to make personal sacrifice to benefit the community, the fact that Hawaii was the last U.S. state to announce it would drop its indoor mask mandate.
The state of Hawaii will no longer require people exposed to Covid-19 infections in school settings to be in a state of isolation.
The director of the Hawaii Department of Health said that the department would recommend indoor masking when spending time with unvaccinated people.
If Covid cases surge again with the emergence of a new variant, Hawaii will bring back a mask mandate.
Favorable vaccine and case data support Ige's claim that Hawaii is safe enough for most people to stay indoors. In Hawaii, about 84% of people have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, compared to 76.6% for the U.S. as a whole. In comparison to the US as a whole, 76.6% of people in Hawaii are fully vaccined. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Hawaii reported 84.8 new Covid cases per 100,000 people over the seven-day period. Last week, before Ige's announcement, Hawaii's four counties decided to drop some Covid rules. The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico dropped its indoor mask requirement.
Ige said that we have lost too many and that many of our residents have suffered from the effects of the Pandemic.
The state of Hawaii plans to relax some of its Covid guidelines for schools. The study found that Arkansas school districts with universal masking rules had lower incidences of Covid. Researchers said that students and staff in districts with masking rules were less likely to catch Covid.
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other states keep their mandates.
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