Lionsgateon Friday notified employees that the mask mandateinstituted about a week agofor the 3rd and 5th floors of the studios five-story office building in Santa Monica is ending, sources tell Deadline.

I hear the announcement was made after Los Angeles County Department of Public Health informed the company that it could lift the mask requirement following days of no new infections.

As Deadline explainedin a follow-up to our original storyabout Lionsgate reinstating a mask mandate following multipleCovidcases at its Santa Monica headquarters, the orders for such temporary mask requirements at companies with active outbreaks come from Public Health based largely on Cal-OSHA regulations.

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