City Votes Not to Enforce COVID-19 Restriction Proposed by Health Department

People demonstrate against COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students in Southern California in a file photo. Robyn Beck/AFP

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.”