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Minnesota's COVID restrictions to end May 28, mask mandate July 1 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 06, 2021 1 min, 3 secs
A mask-wearing mandate for public indoor spaces will end no later than July 1 in Minnesota and COVID-19 restrictions on business capacities and gathering sizes will end May 28 under a plan announced Thursday by Gov.

Most bars and restaurants are operating at 75% of their indoor fire code capacity with additional social distancing limits to prevent close contacts among customers that could spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

They allow indoor social gatherings of up to 50 people and place no restrictions on the sizes of outdoor social gatherings that comply with social distancing requirements.

Social distancing requirements are waived for outdoor entertainment venues and outdoor mask-wearing is not required except at events involving more than 500 people.

Masks will still be required for indoor and outdoor events involving more than 500 people, though, such as Minnesota Twins games.

Roughly 2.6 million people in Minnesota have received some COVID-19 vaccine so far — amounting to nearly 60% of the state's eligible population of people 16 and older — and more than 2 million have completed the one- or two-dose series.

While more than 7,100 people in Minnesota have died from complications of COVID-19, the rate of deaths did not increase at the same pace as infections and hospitalizations in the third wave of pandemic activity over the last two months.

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