Maryland's Board of Education on Feb. 22 voted to lift the statewide mask mandate it imposed in 2021. Members voted 12–2 to rescind the mandate.

Philadelphia city health officials announced a reversal of an indoor mask mandate that recently went into effect in the city.

Scotland’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine passport scheme is to be scrapped next week, with other legal restrictions including mask mandates expected to be ended in March, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

Philadelphians’ Views on Mask Mandate Some Philadelphian residents shared their opinions on the city’s mask mandate with The Epoch Times.

The state reintroduced a state-wide mask mandate beginning Dec. 15, as a 47 percent increase of COVID-19 cases were reported since Thanksgiving, according to the CDPH.

Some transit authorities in New York and California are continuing to require masks even after a federal judge struck down the nationwide mandate for mass transportation systems.

Ochoa said she was excluded from certain school activities because of the mask and vaccine mandates.

“It's very beautiful and fitting that, as we come to a close, we're removing the mask mandate. We are going back to normality, or as normal as we can.”

And that was really unprecedented," Brant Hadaway, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the mask mandate case, told The Epoch Times.

What they’re telling me is that when these mask mandates are in place and people have to wear masks indoors, that they lose a substantial amount of their business."

Carvalho told reporters on Feb. 16 that the district was in talks with medical experts before lifting LAUSD’s outdoor mask mandate.

Grace Hobbs, of Newport Beach, said her family would not comply with the mask mandates. “We think it’s absolutely absurd,” Hobbs said.

She added that even when the provincial mask mandate was in force, schools in her district “certainly did not see 100 percent mask use.” “Certainly you can ask students to wear masks. You can talk about the perceived benefits of masks.

The group that successfully won an injunction against the U.S. government's mask mandate on airplanes is asking a federal appeals court not to allow the mandate to go back into effect. The mask mandate is "procedurally invalid" because the U.S.

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) issued a mask mandate starting Monday, Aug. 9, for all staff, students, and visitors inside all schools and buildings, regardless of vaccination status.

John Carney, also a Democrat, announced on Feb. 7 that the state's indoor mask mandate would be lifted on Feb. 11, but the school mask mandate would stay in place until March 31.

District Court judge that found mask mandates for planes and other public transports unlawful.

An Illinois judge has granted a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit that sought to end mask mandates in schools districts statewide, effectively blocking the masking requirement and other mitigation measures, prompting Gov. J.B.

Even as nations around the world are easing their pandemic restrictions, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) on Jan. 28 adopted a permanent school mask mandate.

The only COVID-19 vaccine mandates the UK government has issued so far have been to health and social care workers.

“Our government will not permit any further masking mandates of children in Alberta's K-12 education system.”

The province of B.C. removed its mask mandate in most settings back in March.

Ashish Jha, has voiced his support for a mask mandate to be reinstated in Los Angeles County amid an increase in COVID-19 cases.

“If the county remains in the CDC-designated High level for two consecutive weeks, we will again impose a universal mandatory indoor mask-wearing mandate.

A member of Long Island Loud Majority at a protest against state-mandated masks for school children on Jan. 26, 2022, at the Suffolk County government offices.

The mask mandate on planes and at airports in the EU has been in place for about two years and has led to conflicts between passengers and airlines across the continent.

The appeal was filed hours after Circuit Judge John Cooper blocked the school mask mandate ban.

California health officials have extended the indoor mask mandate at public premises through Feb. 15 as the number of COVID-19 cases spikes following the spread of the highly-transmissible Omicron variant.

“The mask mandate is nothing more than a control tactic,” Lauria told The Epoch Times. “There should have never been a mask mandate to begin with.”

The changes will apply to all schools and child care facilities, but will not cover school buses, which are subject to a federal mask mandate for public transportation.