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Restaurant owners mull possible impact of Philadelphia's reintroduced indoor mask mandate

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PHILADELPHIA - Pandemic-weary restaurant owners in Philadelphia are wondering how the city's reintroduction of the indoor mask mandate will impact business.

Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole on Monday announced that Philadelphia will bring back its indoor mask mandate on Apr.

18 amid an uptick new infections. The health department's decision came a week after coronavirus cases increased by more than 50% in a ten-day span and the city logged nearly 150 cases a day. "This looks like we may be at the start of a new COVID wave like Europe just saw," Bettigole said.Philadelphia restaurant owners who have already been put through the ringer by two years of COVID-19 restrictions are once again having their patience tested.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Philadelphia, health experts are expected to announce if the city will return to indoor masks."It’s been very, very emotionally and physically draining, telling people constantly to put their mask on, and we look like the bad guys," Owner of O'Neals Pub Spoonie O'Neal said. "We're being the mask police, which I don't think is fair, but it is what it is." Philadelphia will allow businesses to go mask-free if they require everyone on-site to be fully vaccinated.

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