{"id":84816,"date":"2022-04-18T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-airport-and-public-transit-drop-mask-requirement\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T00:56:37","slug":"juneau-airport-and-public-transit-drop-mask-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-airport-and-public-transit-drop-mask-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau airport and public transit drop mask requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a Transportation Security Administration statement Monday, the Juneau International Airport, Capital Transit and CAPITAL AKcess will no longer require mask use, the City and Borough of Juneau Announced.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes after a Florida district court judge voided the federal mask requirement.<\/p>\n

The Alaska Marine Highway System announced late Tuesday that it would also no longer require masks in its buildings or aboard its vessels. <\/p>\n

The TSA mask mandate has been in place for more than two years, and subject to contention at all levels. Mandates in schools and the state Capitol<\/a>, put in place during the earlier stages of the pandemic, were recently allowed to lapse,<\/a> with masks becoming optional. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend that people wear masks in indoor transportation settings.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, many cities switched to a masks optional policy, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, but some entities, such as New York City, continue to require masks in airports and on public transit.<\/p>\n

Juneau had 61 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the last week, according to the state Department of Health and Social Services.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nationwide, many locations have made masks optional. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":84817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-84816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84816"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=84816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}