Apple to drop customer mask requirement at many U.S. stores - Bloomberg News

FILE PHOTO: Customers wait in line outside an Apple Store to pick up Apple's new 5G iPhone 12 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

(Reuters) -Apple Inc will remove its mask mandate for customers at many U.S. retail stores from Friday as COVID-19 cases decline, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

More than 100 of the company's about 270 stores across the country will scrap the requirement, with more stores adopting it gradually, the report https://bloom.bg/3mK2MLq said, citing an internal memo to Apple retail employees.