[2021.02.01 Mon] CNN 10 - A New Mask Mandate

Welcome to Febuary and to its very first edition of CNN 10
I am Carl Azuz.
we hope you had a great weekend or that you have a great one coming up.
Let’s get started.

There is a new rule in the United States for people travelling on board aboard planes, trains, and some automobils.
The Center for Disease Control will requir masks to be worn on public transportation and not just vehicles themselves.
The order applieds to airports, train in and subway stations, fairy terminals and ports, places where people wait to use for public transportations.
The CDC says the masks can be clothes, disposable, or even home-made.
Passenger can only take them off for a short periods of time to eat, drink, or take medicine.
Many companies like airlines already had mask requirements in place.
But up until now, it hasn’t been the law. The new CDC requirement affectively makes it one.
And that means that people can could face criminal charges if they refuse to wear a mask.
This doesn’t apply to kids under 2 years old and people who have disabilities and can’t wear a mask.
Medical officials say that the US has recorded the most positive corona virus tests in the world, more than 26000 million of the 103 million reported globally.
And a CDC official says requiring masks on transportation systems will protect Americans and provide confidence in being able to travel safely.
Last yeat at this time, the agency did not recommend that the public wear masks.
And a medical professor told CNN this was because there was only “thin and questionable scientific evidence that wearing masks had any benefit.”
The CDC’s new requirment takes effect Monday night.