California pushes for masking indoors statewide as COVID cases rise among the vaccinated | Daily Mail Online
California health officials are once again asking people to wear masks in indoor public spaces throughout the state, regardless of their vaccination status, as COVID cases surge from the Delta variant.
The measure is not a mandate, state health officials said on Wednesday, but rather a request, as 90 percent of the state’s population resides in high-transmission areas and an increased number of people who are fully vaccinated against the virus are being diagnosed with it.
‘The Delta variant has caused a sharp increase in hospitalizations and case rates across the state,’ Dr. Thomas Aragon, director of the California Department Public Health, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times Wednesday.