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New York to end 2.5 year old mask mandate for riders on public transit:

Hochul expected to drop mask mandates on mass transit

Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce the lifting of mask mandates on mass transit Thursday, sources tell NY1.

Hochul is scheduled to hold a news conference in Brooklyn shortly.

The policy change comes more than two years after the mask mandate was first put in place by Hochul’s predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in April of 2020.

A MTA survey earlier this year regarding masking aboard New York City’s subways and buses found that compliance among riders had dropped.

Sources tell NY1 that masks will still be required at health care facilities.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...9-announcement