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McDonald's Will Require Face Masks At Its More Than 14,000 U.S. Restaurants

McDonald's will require all customers at its U.S. restaurants to wear a face mask, the company said Friday. Here, a customer wears a mask after picking up an order at the oldest operating McDonald's Corp. restaurant, in Downey, Calif., in April.

An alarming spike in U.S. coronavirus cases is prompting McDonald's to require customers to wear face masks at all of its more than 14,000 domestic-market restaurants, the company announced Friday. The policy takes effect on Aug. 1.

The U.S. now has ; 1 million infections

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