Fans attending this Friday’s sold out AEW Rampage at the United Center in Chicago will need to wear a mask.
According to the Chicago Tribune, city officials announced on Tuesday that an indoor mask mandate will return to the city, more than two months after most COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
Starting Friday, anyone age 2 and older will have to wear a face mask in indoor public spaces, regardless of vaccine status.
It was noted that the mandate is due to the far more transmissible delta variant and its role in pushing the city into the higher risk category of more than 400 new daily COVID-19 cases, in what is being called a late summer surge.