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The Sri Lankan Health Ministry on Monday asked residents to resume using face masks, social distancing, and aggressive hand washing to control the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Bizfed, a coalition representing 410,000 employers and 5 million employees in Los Angeles, has asked the county not to go ahead with plans to reimpose an indoor mask mandate on July 29, favoring a voluntary policy to deal with the COVID surge.

California’s San Diego Unified School District brought back forced masking this week, citing previously agreed upon material in defense of its decision.

One of Germany’s ruling coalition parties has said that forced masking should be brought back this winter to help fight the flu.

Los Angeles County has reached a “high” level of COVID-19 and has begun a countdown to the re-imposition of indoor mask mandates, according to county health director Barbara Ferrer on Thursday.

Los Angeles County could bring back its indoor mask mandate, well over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, public health officials hinted this week.

Denali National Park in Alaska announced on Friday that they will be reinstating a mask mandate in all federal buildings located on park grounds as well as on park buses. 

The State of California has decided not to re-impose mask mandates on children attending school when they return in the fall, a decision that may have had as much to do with looming elections as with the science of COVID-19 transmission.

The L.A. film industry has returned to forced mask wearing indoors after county officials reported a higher number of COVID hospitalizations.

NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.

Advocates for universal masking hit another snag after data showed that one California county, which recently lifted its mask mandate, experienced “near-identical” case rate curves as nearby counties, which did not have mask mandates in place.

“…acts of gross misconduct akin to a workplace assault… because in a way that is exactly what it was,” the ruling said.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) argued that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) doesn’t really care about life because he “was fighting against children wearing masks in school” by opposing fought against mask mandates in

Ireland’s pro-lockdown health minister has said that he may reintroduce forced mask-wearing lockdown measures ostensibly to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Lawmakers in Germany are reportedly considering imposing mask mandates every year from October to Easter to slow spread of the coronavirus.

The Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) reimposed its mask mandate on Monday after moving masking to optional just two months ago. 

Several well-known companies, organizations, and federal agencies continue to capitalize on political disasters or movements to advance leftist narratives — from the advancement of radical LGBT ideology to the recent push for mass gun control. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is one of the few GOP governors who has openly defied woke virtue-signaling. 

Alameda County in California’s Bay Area reimplemented a mask mandate for its 1.6 million residents, which went into effect Friday.

New York City is still requiring toddlers to mask up despite the school year coming to an end, and Mayor Eric Adams is giving no timeline as to when he will lift the mandates for the young pupils. 

The Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to reinstate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) broad-sweeping mask mandate for travel.

Nearly 4,000 people in London were handed £200 ($250) fines for not wearing masks on London’s public transport system during the UK’s lockdown.

White House COVID-⁠19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Americans should be wearing a mask in crowded indoor spaces to combat the current coronavirus surge.

Not only have the fascist welfare queens at NPR set up a snitch hotline for mask offenses, but the fascist welfare queens at NPR are also still forcing their employees to wear those useless masks.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi appeared maskless in front of masked children during a visit to a middle school in Verona on Friday.

Protect the Public’s Trust, a government ethics watchdog, is suing the Department of Education in an effort to discover the level of influence teachers’ unions and other special interest groups had on keeping schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blackgirdi this week hinted that a mask mandate could be returning to the city, over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

A host of EU nations have insisted that they will keep forcing plane passengers to wear masks, despite the EU lifting its bloc-wide requirement on Monday.

Most Americans are no longer worried about “experiencing” the Chinese coronavirus, a YouGov/The Economist survey released this week found.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is reportedly considering implementing mask-only cars, pending concerns over the possible ramifications of mask enforcement.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that one of the contributing factors to an uptick in COVID cases is “many people are no longer wearing masks in indoor settings.”

Massachusetts’ Northampton Public Schools is the latest to bring back its mask mandate on students, citing an increase of cases of the Chinese coronavirus. 

Various areas of Maine, including the Bangor International Airport, are reimplementing mask mandates due to changes in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) transmission map.

The EU will no longer require masks to be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions.

Officials are forcing city workers in San Jose, California, to mask up on the job yet again out of an “abundance of caution” as the country as a whole continues to move in the direction of pre-pandemic normalcy. 

Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) is ushering in mask mandates yet again, forcing elementary and middle school students to cover their faces, over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who is running for Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) open Senate seat, is set to introduce a bill limiting the government’s ability to mandate mask-wearing during air travel.