Philadelphia Casinos Forced to Reimplement Mandatory Face Masks, Double Masks Coming for City Employees

Philadelphia casinos are one time over again requiring both employees and guests to hold out face masks piece indoors. It’s a conclusion Rivers Casino and Live! Casino and Hotel didn’t create on their own.

The City of Philadelphia is experiencing rising COVID-19 example counts due to the delta variant. In response, city officials said yesterday that the indoor face mandatory is existence reimplemented at most places.

Effective today, human face masks are required indoors at businesses and institutions where cogent evidence of vaccination for employees and guests is non mandatory. Businesses that authorisation workers and patrons demo they’ve been vaccinated are relieve from the modish order.

While being full vaccinated is the topper way to protect against serious complications from COVID, masks get been proven to trim the risk of exposure that unvaccinated and vaccinated people testament live infected with COVID,” a metropolis financial statement read. “We’ve said it before: wearing your block out to facilitate drop the curve. It worked before, and it’ll work on again.”

Philadelphia is urging all city employees to get vaccinated as soon as possible. If they don’t — effectual Sep 1 — they testament follow required to wear thin non 1 but two face masks while on the job. Nonvaccinated employees will follow ordered to get into a cloth block out natural covering o'er a disposable or surgical mask.

New weekly COVID-19 cases inwards City of Brotherly Love feature increased substantially since early summer. The urban center confirmed around 150 unexampled cases each calendar week inward June and July, but numbers have got skyrocketed to to a greater extent than 1,000 from each one calendar week in late July and too soon August.

Nearby Casinos Immune

Five casinos are considered to follow inward the Philly metro, the furthest from downtown beingness the Valley Forge Casino Resort some 20 miles west. Along with Rivers and Live!, the other casinos inward the surface area are Harrah’s City of Brotherly Love and Parx.

Only Live! and Rivers are located within the city limits, and hence subjected to metropolis orders. And during the pandemic, that lay Rivers at a militant disadvantage with its Philly peers.

Last year, Rivers — and so the only when casino inwards Philly’s metropolis limits, as Live! Philadelphia only when opened in Jan of 2021 — was ordered to tight when its neighboring competitors were not.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) ordered the state’s commercial message casinos to suspend operations inward mid-March of 2020. They began reopening on a regional near inward June, but Rivers remained unsympathetic on urban center orders until July 17.

Last November, City of Brotherly Love ordered Rivers to fill up from Nov 20 through and through Jan 15 due to a COVID-19 spike. The state’s other commercial casinos were only closed in(p) on Wolf’s commands from December 12 through and through Jan 4.

Public Retaliation

Some metropolis residents are none too glad to hear human face masks are erst once again required inward most indoor places end-to-end downtown.

A few attitudes on the City of Philadelphia’s Twitter post announcing the mask reimplementation include, “Lol funny. Not wearing a mask,” “Completely ridiculous,” and “118 hospitalized come out of 1.8 1000000 residents.”

It gets me that I unrecorded 3 miles from Bucks County and it's a different realism there. They have not had restrictions since July 2020. So, unity reality inward Philly and another reality inwards Bucks THREE MILES AWAY. That is madness.

— TheAdlerian (@TheAdlerian) August 12, 2021

Others, however, cheered the directive.

“This is a reasonable and reasonable petition to work of common-sense Philadelphians. Nobody likes this but it’s what we must manage to beat up the COVID crisis which is noneffervescent causing a lot of harm,” opined occupant Edith Horwitz.