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CDC Masking Changes, Philly Keeps Mandate; Internal Affairs Building Shot; Plane Crash Victims ID'd

by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 02/26/22 4:23 pm | updated: 02/26/22 4:23 pm

The Centers for Disease Control announced changes to its masking guidance on Friday, 2/25. Under the old guidelines, 95% of counties in the US were considered areas of high transmission and required masking indoors. The new metrics still take into account case loads, but also factor in COVID hospitalizations, hospital capacity, etc. There is now a three tiered risk classification (low, medium, and high). Counties in the low or medium risk do not need to were masks indoors in public. More than 70% of Americans now live in counties that are classified as low or medium risk. Philadelphia and the surrounding counties are included in that classification. However, he CDC allows for individual counties to enact their own guidance.

SEE ALSO: COVID-19 Risk Level By County

The City of Philadelphia will still require masks indoors in public spaces and in schools. "Though we are encouraged by current COVID-19 trends, the Health Department has developed its Response Levels based on local conditions and months of data specific to Philadelphia," the Department of Public Health said. "At this time we plan to continue the implementation of these current Response Levels as the pandemic unfolds. We are not making any changes to mask guidance at this time."

Philadelphia police are investigating after the Internal Affairs Office in Northeast Philadelphia was hit by a stray bullet on Friday night, 2/15. It happened before 11:00 p.m. on the 7900 block of Dungan Road in Rhawnhurst. Police say that a woman was shot at multiple times near the building. She was not injured. One of the bullets went through a window to the cafeteria of the Internal Affairs building and hit a wall. No one inside was injured. No arrests were made. The investigation is ongoing.

Bucks County officials have identified both victims in the fiery small plane crash on Thursday afternoon, 2/24. 74-year-old Alfred George Piranian from Chalfont and 55-year-old Brian Fillippini of Philadelphia were aboard the single-engine plane when it crashed in a residential neighborhood. It happened around 5 p.m. at Victoria and Brittany Lanes in Hilltown Township. Filippini, a husband and father of three, owned the plane. It left Doylestown Airport and was headed to Gunden Airport in Perkasie. The FAA and NTSB are investigating the crash.

SEE ALSO: Small Plane Crash in Bucks

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