People in the USA who have had both vaccine doses will be allowed to meet indoors without a mask under new plans.
This will be a welcome piece of normality after months of constant bad news.
The New York Times reported that Dr Rochelle P Walensky, the director of the Centre for Disease Control, said: "As more Americans are vaccinated, a growing body of evidence now tells us that there are some activities that fully vaccinated people can resume at low risk to themselves.”
“This is not turning a switch on and off,” said Dr Carlos del Rio, vice president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “This is more like turning a faucet — you slowly start turning the faucet off.”
Even so “it’s welcome news,” he added. “It’s the first time they are saying you can do something, as opposed to saying everything you can’t do. It’s huge.”
Given the rapid rollout of vaccinations in Wales and that many people now receiving their second jab WalesOnline asked the Welsh Government health minister Vaughan Gething if he would consider similar measures here.
"When it comes to the USA the choices are there for the USA administrations both the White House and at state level," he said. "We have a different system here. We are of course interested in how other people around the world are experiencing moving between the difficult balance of saving lives and livelihoods.
"When you see the modelled evidence and I'm keen we do get to publish it so you can review it will show that with a single dose of the vaccine there is still a risk to people.
"Once people have had two doses of the vaccine there is still some challenges for us in terms of the other people who haven't yet had the vaccine as well and we don't expect to get the whole adult population to have had their first dose until the end of July."
Mr Gething added that they wouldn't be follow a "cavalier approach".
He said: "So we still need to balance this and I don't think we are going to be saying to people but you can throw all the restrictions to one side once you've had the vaccination.
"I think that sort of cavalier approach could introduce a lot of harm very quickly. It is exactly the sort of challenge that Chris Whitty has been highlighting in his evidence yesterday and our own advice from the chief medical officer as well."
