Connecticut’s COVID Restrictions to End on May 19 - But Masks Will Still Be Required Indoors

Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps, beginning May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else. The remaining mandate will be a requirement for wearing masks in public indoor places.

By Health by Mark Pazniokas| CTMirror.org

Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps, beginning May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else. The remaining mandate will be a requirement for wearing masks in public indoor places.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced on April 26, moves that essentially will conclude the extraordinary state of emergency that began 14 months ago — but do not mark end of a pandemic that claimed 19 lives since April 23 and pushed the state’s death toll past 8,000.

The announcement at the first of his twice-a-week televised COVID briefings was anticlimactic, described by Lamont as another of the steps the governor has taken towards reopening civic, social and commercial life in Connecticut.

 

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