The City Council in Beverly Hills, California, unanimously voted not to enforce a Los Angeles County COVID-19 mask mandate if one is adopted by the county health department.
Los Angeles County is poised to impose a new indoor mask mandate at the end of July, according to Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer in an update on July 21. However, she said that if reported cases see a “steep decline next week,” the county may “take a pause on moving too quickly on indoor masking, universal indoor masking.”
But on Monday, the Beverly Hills City Council voted down the mandate. If Los Angeles County implements the mask mandate, it now means that it will have to dedicate staff and resources to enforce it in Beverly Hills, according to a news release from the city….