UN Security Council to Meet Sunday on Mideast After US Delay
24 COVID-19 DEATHS SRI LANKA WON THE ‘WAR’ REPORTED, AS 2,269 NEW BUT LOST THE LAW CASES CONFIRMED MAY 14 - 16, 2021 VOL: 4- ISSUE 247 . ‘WHY DO WE DESERVE TO DIE?’ THE LEGENDARY DIVA 30 GLOCAL PAGE 03 REALITY CHECK PAGE 05 COMMENTARY PAGE 07 LITERARY LIVES PAGE 09 Registered in the Department of Posts of Sri Lanka under No: QD/130/News/2021 In pandemic milestone US lifts indoor mask guidance for vaccinated people WASHINGTON - Federal health officials on Thursday (13) ad- vised Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus that they could stop wearing masks or maintaining social distance in most settings, the clearest sign yet that the pandemic might be nearing an end in the United States. The new recommendations caught state officials and businesses by surprise and raised a host of difficult questions about how the guidelines would be carried out. But the advice came as welcome news to many Americans. “We have all longed for this moment,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.” Permission to stop using masks also offers an incentive to the many millions who are still holding out on vaccination. Providers are administering about 2.09 million doses per day on average, about a 38% decrease from the peak of 3.38 million reported in mid-April. President Joe Biden hailed the new recommendations as a “mile- stone” and urged Americans to roll up their sleeves for vaccinations.
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