On the 5th, the first weekend of the Mississippi state of the United States lifting the mandatory masks, a bar in Oxford is crowded with young people without masks. Twitter (@RoCent1954) capture
The United States, the world’s largest new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) victim country, is speeding up vaccination against the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), but as the movement to refuse to wear a mask is also increasing, health authorities are getting more trouble.
In Mississippi, where the mandate to wear masks was lifted, shops such as bars were filled as if people who threw off masks were waiting, and in Idaho, protesters against wearing masks even opened up a “masked form”.
According to the British Daily Mail on the 7th (local time), in the US state of Mississippi, hundreds of people poured out into the streets without masks on the 3rd, the first weekend after lifting the mandatory masks.
On the 6th, protesters refusing to wear masks in Boise, Idaho, USA, are holding a’mask burning form’ in which surgical masks are burned. Voice = AFP Yonhap News
The Washington Post (WP) reported that the previous day, in front of the capitol in Boise, northern Idaho, a “mask form” was held to protest against the COVID-19 quarantine guidelines. About 100 protesters said they would refuse to wear masks and burned the drums by burning them. Under the encouragement of parents and adults who participated in the meeting, the children threw their masks into the fire, and some of them shouted, “Get rid of the masks.”
In Idaho, with a population of 1.8 million, 173,000 people, nearly one-tenth of the population so far, have contracted Corona 19, of which 1,800 have died. The state of Idaho has not ordered masks to be worn across the state, but masks are mandated in 12 locations, including Boise, where the rally was held.
On the 4th, the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, is crowded with young people who want to enjoy spring break. Fort Lauderdale = AFP Yonhap News
There is growing concern that Florida may “repeat last year’s mistakes” as college students in bikinis flocked to the spring break. Florida did not close multi-use facilities during the spring break last year, so there is an experience in which the state of Corona 19 was infected.
According to the Florida local media Sun Sentinel, even though some universities have canceled spring break, the local beach is crowded with college students who do not wear masks.
Chad Macuri, a local resident who took a video of the crowded beach and uploaded it to the Social Network Service (SNS), wrote, “It looks like a big party scene reminiscent of last year’s spring break.”
In Florida, the’Daytona Bike Festival’ is scheduled to be held for 10 days from the 12th, so it is expected that more than 300,000 people will gather.
A group of unmasked people sit in a store in Dallas on the 3rd, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the lifting of the mandatory masks. From the 10th in Texas, the requirement to wear a mask disappears. Dallas = AP Yonhap News
There is also a high concern about the spread of Corona 19 in Texas, where the regulations for obligating masks to wear from the 10th will disappear. Texas is the largest state in the area where masks are abolished. The death toll of Corona 19 in Texas, with a population of 29 million, has exceeded 43,000.
Accordingly, health experts in the United States are concerned about the re-proliferation of Corona 19 due to hasty measures to mitigate quarantine. Although the rate of COVID-19 infection in the United States has stagnated, the absolute number of new confirmed cases per day is still high. CNN broadcast cited data from Johns Hopkins University and reported that the average of 60,000 new infections and 1,700 deaths per day last week.
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