New York State officially will repeal its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers on Oct. 4, the attorney general’s office on Tuesday informed the New York Supreme Court.

The announcement comes after New York health officials revealed in May that they planned to repeal the mandate, in a surprise move during a hearing in a lawsuit challenging the mandate.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) sponsored the lawsuit, filed Oct. 20, 2022, by a group of medical practitioners affected by the mandate, along with several additional plaintiffs, including two doctors, a nurse, a radiologic technologist and a medical laboratory specialist.