Philadelphia will require people to mask up in indoor places once again starting next week, citing an uptick in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron subvariant BA.2.
It is the first big city to reimpose a mask mandate since the last remaining ones were lifted starting in February. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health made the announcement on Monday, just over a month after lifting its mandate for indoor public places.
Mandatory masking will also return in schools and child care settings, as well as restaurants and government buildings. Philadelphians who see a business violating the mandate have been encouraged to report it to 311.The city’s COVID-19 mitigation measures are implemented based on the threat of transmission, which is broken into four different threat levels.
The seven-day daily average number of cases in Philadelphia is 142 as of April 8, and city officials have recorded a 60% increase in case counts over the past 10 days, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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