/ ListenUpYall.com
Jan 13, 2021 5:26 AM
NATCHEZ. Miss. – The widening spread of COVID in Natchez compelled the mayor and city aldermen to hold their bimonthly meeting virtually Tuesday rather than gathering together after some City Hall staffers were exposed to the virus and are now quarantined.
Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson reiterated his “urgent call” for everybody to continue wearing masks in public, washing hands and staying as physically apart as possible from others outside their households .
Adams County this past week experienced its largest weekly spike in new COVID-19 cases since March, when the Mississippi Department of Health began compiling data about the coronavirus. The latest count of Adams County residents who’ve been infected totaled 1,981 – up 135 from the 1,846 on Jan. 4.