Democratic Gov Phil Murphy will order the statewide mandate for masks in schools to end next month, a sign that life in the United State can soon return to normal as cases continue to plummet nationwide, down 33 percent across the country over the past week.
The Garden State was one of the hardest struck states by the variant when it erupted along the east coast late last year. New Jersey saw its cases jump sevenfold in a matter of weeks in December, before peaking at around 32,000 cases per day. Infections have plummeted since, though, and the state is currently averaging 3,000 per day.
Masks is schools have a been a controversial policy enacted in many blue states. New Jersey, one of America's more liberal states which has been hit hardest by the virus, lifting its school mask mandate could be a harbinger for pandemic mandates slowly being dropped everywhere.
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