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Fans attending Saturday night’s Los Angeles Football Club game are required to wear masks or face coverings in indoor areas of Banc of California Stadium and the stadium concourse, unless actively eating or drinking, under the latest Los Angeles County health order.

Many who have been vaccinated have been wearing simple cloth masks, but now, some health experts recommend using the “N-95” masks. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 22, 2021.

December 2020 marked one year since Wuhan, China, reported the world’s first cases of COVID-19. Now, life in the city is largely back to normal.

The nation’s pediatricians recommend all students wear masks at school, even if they’re vaccinated. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 19, 2021.

The nation’s pediatricians recommend all students wear masks at school, even if they’re vaccinated. Here’s a closer look and what it means for students in Southern California.

In the face of steadily increasing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, Los Angeles County will again require people to wear masks in indoor settings beginning Saturday night, regardless of their vaccination status. Lauren Coronado reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on July 17, 2021.

Many have mixed reactions to LA County’s decision to reinstate a mask mandate indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on July 16, 2021.

UCLA epidemiology Prof. Anne Rimoin believes Public Health made a needed decision, to again require all in LA County to mask up indoors, not just the unvaccinated. Patrick Healy reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 16, 2021.

Come Saturday, LA County residents are under Health Officer orders to resume wearing face masks indoors, following an alarming surge in new COVID cases, especially the highly transmissible Delta variant. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on July 15, 2021.

LA County’s new indoor mask mandate is getting some mixed reactions from shoppers and business owners. Hetty Chang reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on July 15, 2021.

Indoor masking once again will be required starting Saturday night in LA County. Patrick Healy reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 15, 2021.

California softened its coronavirus guidelines for the 2021-22 school year for public schools after it originally stated students who refused to wear masks would be barred from campuses. Although face masks will still be required indoors, social distancing will no longer be mandated, the state announced on Monday.

Breaking from current guidance allowing residents who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to shed their face masks in most situations, Los Angeles County health officials Monday “strongly” recommended that everyone wear masks in indoor public places due to rapid spread of a highly contagious virus mutation.

Two weeks after California reopened and shed most coronavirus restrictions, LA County Public Health now recommends going back to wearing face masks indoors. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on June 28, 2021.

The Delta variant is now responsible for approximately one in every five cases of COVID-19 across the country. While vaccines are still effective against the virus and breakthrough infections remain less severe for vaccinated people, LA County Public Health is now recommending that everyone wear masks inside regardless of vaccination status. Patrick Healy reports for NBC4 on June 28, 2021.

Saying COVID-19 is now “a pandemic of unvaccinated people,” Los Angeles County’s public health director urged employers on Monday to verify workers’ vaccination status to determine if they should be wearing masks at work, despite the state allowing a self-attestation honor system.

California regulators have approved revised workplace pandemic rules that allow employees who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus the same freedoms as when they are off the job

A massive “face mask” weighing 77 pounds was placed on a giant Buddhist statue in Fukushima, Japan, to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated guidance released Wednesday by California’s health department on the use of face masks offers a glimpse of what things will look like when the nation’s most populous state rolls back most of its pandemic restrictions next week.

The masks can come off for fully vaccinated people in most situations after COVID-19 health restrictions are lifted Tuesday, but that is not the case for people suffering from cancer and immune deficiencies.