The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that people, who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, can gather indoors and without masks for Easter celebrations. 

The CDC also added that people, who have only received their first shot of the anti-COVID vaccines, have their Easter dinner and egg hunts at only homes or outdoors with proper 6 feet social distancing guidelines in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

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An individual will be called fully vaccinated if it has been two weeks since they received their second dose of COVID-19 vaccines of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, or it has been two weeks since they received the single dose of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The fully vaccinated people thus can gather without masks or indoors on Sunday to celebrate Easter. 

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The CDC made this announcement on Twitter on the basis of existing guidance for fully vaccinated people by the department.

The guideline by the CDC, released in March says a fully vaccinated individual can meet outdoors without masks and can also gather with unvaccinated people without masks. However, that visit should only be limited to one unvaccinated household at a time. 

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The CDC recently announced that the US government has successfully complete total vaccination against coronavirus in almost one in six people in America. It said that out of 195,581,725 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine doses of Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson delivered to authorities, 150,273,292 have already been administered.

A report in CNN said, quoting the CDC, that nearly 55 million have received both shots of vaccine, while 97 million have been given the first dose.