PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A number of companies and residents have filed swimsuit in state courtroom in Pennsylvania looking for to overturn Philadelphia’s renewed indoor masks mandate scheduled to be enforced starting Monday amid a surge in COVID-19 infections.
Philadelphia earlier this week turned the primary main U.S. metropolis to reinstate its indoor masks mandate after reporting a pointy improve in coronavirus infections. Legal professional Thomas W. King III stated town’s emergency order went towards Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention suggestions and “imposed a renegade customary.”
The swimsuit filed Saturday accuses metropolis well being officers of getting “usurped the ability and authority” of state lawmakers and officers.
A message looking for remark was despatched to the Philadelphia mayor’s workplace.