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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Thursday, March 3rd. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning. In the news this morning, Philadelphia officials announced Wednesday

that the city is moving into the all-clear response level and is dropping the indoor mask mandate effective immediately.

The all-clear level lifts the city-specific mask mandate, but federal mask mandates in place like

health care facilities and on public transportation remain in place.

Mask mandates in schools and at private businesses are also separate from the city's

restrictions.

Officials said if things continue to move in the right direction, mandatory masking in schools would end on March 9th. There will be a one-week mask requirement after spring break to

avoid a post-break surge in cases, officials said. Last month, Philadelphia public health

officials released COVID response levels that use pandemic metrics to help know when the city's public mandates would be enforced.

There are four levels of the response.

All clear.

Mask precaution only, caution and extreme caution.

Kathy, is it possible that things get so good that they do mandatory toplessness?

Oh, that's not.

You're going in the other direction.

Now you're taking things off.

Mandatory. Right. Mandatory is the key.

Mandatory, topless. No, but this is the right direction.

Not optional. Mandatory. Yeah. You get that shirt off right now.

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