In August, the Transportation Security Administration extended its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18 “to minimize the spread of Covid-19 on public transportation” due to concerns at that time over the Delta variant.
The latest extension, first reported by Reuters, comes after the United States’ first confirmed case of the Omicron variant was identified in California. In a White House news briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the case was in an…
