{"id":518,"date":"2022-04-13T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:43:38","slug":"mask-mandate-for-usa-flights-extended-to-may-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/2022\/04\/13\/mask-mandate-for-usa-flights-extended-to-may-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask mandate for USA flights extended to May 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are traveling <meta charset=\"utf-8\">to\/from or in The United States of America you will still need to wear a mask. This mask mandate is required for planes, trains, and buses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal transportation mask mandate,&nbsp;which was announced in January 2021&nbsp;and&nbsp;was due to expire on Easter Monday (18th April<meta charset=\"utf-8\">, 2022), will now be extended by 15 days (May 3, 2022)&nbsp;due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to the&nbsp;CDC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">CDC spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/about\/leadership\/leaders\/adc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caitlin Shockey<\/a> stated &#8220;Since early April, there have been increases in the&nbsp;7-day moving average&nbsp;of cases in the U.S.&nbsp;In order to assess the potential impact the rise of cases has on severe disease, including hospitalizations and deaths, and health care system capacity, the CDC Order will remain in place at this time&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get caught out traveling to\/from or in the USA without your mask&#8230; nothing worse than having to use the free itchy masks they hand out on planes\/trains\/buses \ud83d\ude43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/travel\/name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/travel\/name noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1.png 970w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are traveling to\/from or in The United States of America you will still need to wear a mask. This mask mandate is required for planes, trains, and buses. The federal transportation mask mandate,&nbsp;which was announced in January 2021&nbsp;and&nbsp;was due to expire on Easter Monday (18th April, 2022), will now be extended by 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[16,10,11,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/usamask.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}