Philadelphia will bring back its indoor mask mandate for public places, schools and daycares amid an increase in COVID-19 cases.
The mask mandate will go back into effect on April 18 after being dropped less than two months ago, per Just the News.
“If we fail to act now, knowing that every previous wave of infections has been followed by a wave of hospitalizations and a wave of deaths, it’ll be too late for many of our residents,” Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said. “This is our chance to…put our masks on until we have more information on the severity of this variant.”
Meanwhile, Biden's COVID Czar appeared on the Today Show Monday morning saying he's not overly concerned by the recent rise in COVID-19 cases.
“I’m not overly concerned right now,” Dr. Asish Jha, the newly appointed COVID Czar, said. “Case numbers are rising — BA.2 — we were expecting this because we saw this in Europe a few weeks ago.”
“But the good news is we’re coming off still very low infection numbers. Hospitalizations are the lowest they have been in the entire pandemic. so we’ve got to watch this very carefully, obviously, I never like to see infections rising,” he continued. “I think we’ve got to be careful but I don’t think this is a moment where we have to be excessively concerned.”
