Seventeen additional counties have been added to the mask mandate, Gov.
Tate Reeves announced Tuesday, Dec.
22.
Emily.
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It's not a state-wide mask mandate, but it's pretty close to it.
Governor tate reeves announced it's not a state-wide mask mandate, but it's pretty close to it.
Governor tate reeves announced today -- he added 17 new counties to his current mask mandate.
This update now puts every county in our viewing area of north mississippi under a mask mandate.
Almost all of them were under a mask mandate following governor reeves' previous order.
This new order adds benton county, which was removed from a mask mandate in that previous order.
In the entire state, only four counties are not under a mask mandate.
Those are: issaquena, claiborne, sharkey, and tunica counties.
And these new mask mandates come just after mississippi broke another daily record: nearly 80 new deaths in a single day.
The state department of health confirmed 79 new deaths today, bringing the new state death total now to nearly 45 hundred.
With this massive
Mississippi bars and restaurants are limited in selling alcohol to customers ringing in the new year.
