Americans who are fully vaccinated will be able to stop wearing masks and respect the rule of social distancing in most situations, both outdoors and indoors: the CDC, the highest US health authority, affirms. “Today is a great day for America in the long battle against Covid-19”, so President Joe Biden commented on the new guidelines that invalidate the obligation to wear a mask or respect the social distancing for the fully vaccinated. . Biden arrived in the White House Rose Garden with Deputy Kamala Harris without wearing a mask.
Thus the number of new daily cases of Covid-19 in the United States continues to decrease. Yesterday, there were 35,878, the fifth consecutive day under 40,000 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The seven-day moving average is 36,731 new cases, below the 14-day average of 41,710, a sign that the trend is down. Yesterday, 848 deaths were recorded, for a total of over 583,600. In the United States, more than 264.6 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far, with 154 million people having received at least one dose, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
58.7% of adults and 84% of over 65s received at least one dose, 45.1% of adults and 71.9% of over 65s are fully vaccinated. The number of people undergoing the vaccine is rising: in the last week, given an average of 2.2 million doses per day. President Joe Biden’s goal is to have 70% of the adult population with at least one dose administered by July 4th.
Meanwhile, cities are heading towards a full return to normal: in New York, the largest number of people on the subway has been registered since 13 March 2020; in San Francisco, the San Francisco Symphony held its first in-person performance in over a year. On Monday, some restaurants in the United States hit an important milestone: They are back to having the number of customers they had in 2019, writes the Wall Street Journal.