As Gov. Tate Reeves rolls back mask mandates and allows businesses to fully reopen, Tupelo health officials are encouraging residents to remain vigilant.
Reeves lifted all county mask mandates and allowed businesses to return to full capacity without any state-imposed rules starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, citing plummeting hospitalizations and drastically falling COVID-19 case numbers.
David Wilson, president of North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, said that while the governor is correct about numbers declining, he is concerned that without a mandate the number of new cases will increase.
âI do believe, given itâs not required, we will see far fewer people wearing a mask,â Wilson said.
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TUPELO â¢Â Mayor Jason Shelton is criticizing a candidate seeking to replace him for supporting a sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.
In comments posted to social media, Shelton accused Lee County supervisor and Republican mayoral candidate Todd Jordan of wanting âto raise your taxes and put every business in Tupelo/Lee County at a competitive disadvantage to businesses in neighboring counties.â
The five-member Lee County Board of Supervisors, of which Jordan is a first-term member, wants legislative permission to call a referendum asking local voters to approve a countywide sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.
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