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The city of El Cajon, which found itself under an international spotlight because of a ban on feeding the homeless, lifted the temporary order on Tuesday.

City officials enacted the ban on sharing food in city parks in October as a safety measure after the San Diego County Board of Supervisors declared the region’s growing hepatitis A outbreak a public health emergency.

On Tuesday, the county ended its health emergency declaration and the city of El Cajon followed suit.

“We’re happy that the hep A emergency is over,” said El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells. “As we always said, the ban was lifted the moment we were aware of that.”

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