San Francisco and six other counties in the Bay Area have reinstated a universal mask mandate for indoor public places. The requirement will take effect on Tuesday and will require individuals to wear a face covering when indoors in public settings, regardless of vaccination status.
The US has administered at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine to 70 per cent of American adults, reaching the milestone almost one month later than planned. Following a blistering start to the US rollout, daily vaccinations are now hovering at about 550,000 a day over the past week, down from a peak rate of more than 3.4m in mid-April, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Target and Home Depot have become the latest big US retailers to update their in-store mask rules owing to the continued spread of the Delta variant. Home Depot announced on Monday that effective immediately, all its workers would be required to wear…
