Daily News | Philly’s mask mandate may already be making a difference, Mayor Kenney says
on public transportation, which the regional agency did without consulting his office, Kenney said.
The city’s deputy managing director for transportation, deputy mayor for intergovernmental relations, and health commissioner were alerted to the change,Here’s how SEPTA decided to lift its mask requirement after a federal judge canceled the national mandate “Taking this very minor precaution of wearing a mask is easier than slipping backwards into lockdowns and other kinds of restrictions we don’t want to go back to,” Kenney said.
Philadelphia reported an average of 242 new cases Thursday, a decline from Wednesday but about on par with Tuesday’s count. The city was averaging 94 new cases a day when the health department started advising masking in early April. The increase in case counts over the past 10 days dropped to 49%, an Inquirer analysis of COVID data reported.
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