Starbucks has announced that customers will have to wear face coverings at all company-owned U.S. stores starting on July 15 to contain the spread of coronavirus. The coffee chain said for certain locations where there was no local government mandate to wear face masks, customers would have other options including drive-through and curbside pickups. The move by Starbucks comes as COVID-19 cases in the United States are on the rise with federal health officials recommending that all Americans over the age of 2 wear cloth face coverings in public. Customers at Starbucks will have to wear a face mask, the company announced on ThursdayThe United States has now almost 3.1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and 133,000 deathsOn Wednesday, the United States passed three million cases, and 132,000 deaths. This breaks the previous record set on Tuesday of 60,021 and brings the total number of cases to 3.05 million.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2020 21:57 UTC