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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said some 93% of the US population live in locations where COVID-19 levels are low enough that people do not need to wear masks indoors.

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On Friday, the CDC dramatically eased its COVID-19 guidelines for when Americans should wear masks indoors, saying they could drop them in counties experiencing what it described as low or medium COVID-19 levels.

When it announced the revised guidelines, the CDC said about 70% of US counties and 72% of the US population were in communities where indoor face coverings are no longer recommended.The agency said on Thursday that 85.4% of counties now rank as low or medium risk and 92.9% of the population lives in those counties.

The masking guidelines announced last week shifted from a focus on the rate of COVID-19 transmission to local hospitalisations, hospital capacity and infection rates.

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