Texas Governor Greg Abbott will remove the mandate from the state’s mask and announced that the companies would be allowed to reopen at full capacity in a week.
“Now is the time to open Texas 100 percent,” Abbott said Tuesday afternoon at Montelongo’s Mexican Restaurant in Lubbock.
“Covid has not suddenly disappeared,” he said, “but state mandates are no longer needed.”
Abbott said his new executive order would terminate “most” of Covid-19’s previous executive orders and that all companies would be allowed to open “100 percent” as of March 10.
The end of the mask’s mandate makes Texas, with a population of 29 million, the largest state to end a rule that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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