The city of Las Vegas has announced that they will now require guests indoors to wear a mask.

Vegas’ new mandate will take effect on Friday only days after the CDC recommended that people once again wear masks indoors.

Right now there are 12 out of 17 states in Las Vegas are tagged as “high” or “substantial” risk of transmitting the COVID virus.

Over the past couple of weeks, cases of COVID-19 have risen across the country.

In the last 48 hours the folks at both Disney parks have announced the return of masks on visitors age 2 and up. And don’t expect to get on an airplane in 2021 without a mask, as some were hoping would happen.

From USA TODAY:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Tuesday that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with high transmission as COVID-19 cases continue to rise and vaccination rates wane.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said new data shows the delta variant, which accounts for more than 80% of the new infections in the U.S., behaves “uniquely differently” from its predecessors and could make vaccinated people infectious.

“Information on the delta variant from several states and other countries indicates that in rare occasions some vaccinated people infected with the delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others,” Walensky said in announcing the new guidance, a reversal of what the CDC recommended in May. “This new science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our recommendation.”

Susan Saunders 7/30/21