LA County won’t impose new mask mandate as coronavirus cases decline
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County will hold off on reinstituting a universal indoor public mask mandate, prompted by improvements in the region’s coronavirus case and hospitalization rates.
Aside from not implementing the order, which otherwise would have gone into effect Friday, the recent downward trends are fueling some optimism that the months-old COVID wave fueled by hyperinfectious omicron subvariants is finally starting to wane.
The renewed face covering order would have applied indoors for anyone age 2 or older at a host of establishments and venues, including shared office space, manufacturing and retail settings, event spaces, restaurants and bars, gyms and yoga studios, educational settings and children’s programs.
Masks remain required — as they have for months — in indoor public transit areas in L.A., including in taxis, Ubers and Lyfts and in airports, as well as in health care settings,
