(AP)- New York City is keeping a mask mandate for children under 5 in place and will appeal a judge’s ruling that struck it down. Mayor Eric Adams said Friday the city will continue to require masks for children aged 2 to 4 in schools and daycare centers. Adams had said previously that the mask mandate for young children would be lifted on April 4 if coronavirus numbers remained low. New York City is now averaging just under 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 per day. That’s more than twice the number on the average day in early March.
Photo: FILE – Children and their guardians wearing masks because of COVID-19 pandemic, leave P.S. 64 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. New York City is keeping a mask mandate for children under 5 in place and will appeal a judge’s ruling that struck it down. Mayor Eric Adams said Friday, April 1, 2022 the city will continue to require masks for children aged 2 to 4 in schools and daycare centers. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
