“Due to decreasing hospitalizations and a leveling of case counts, the City will move to strongly recommending masks in indoor public spaces as opposed to a mask mandate,” the city said in a statement to ABC 6.

The mandate received public pushback with a group of Philadelphia business owners and residents suing the city to overturn the mandate, arguing the city disregarded the CDC as a source for standards for masking and that the restaurant industry will face backlash from customers which could affect business, according to 6ABC.