WFAE
Leaders in Mecklenburg County are continuing to discourage residents from traveling for the holidays or getting together with people they don’t live with. The warning comes as COVID-19 trends in the county continue to worsen.
“For this holiday season, we ask that you stay home and only be around those who you live with,” Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio said at a press conference on Monday.
Diorio said county data show that COVID-19 is still “very widespread” in the community and she called holiday gatherings “some of the most dangerous places to be.”
But Diorio is not following her own advice about holiday celebrations. She told reporters on Monday that she would be “traveling by car to Durham to see some close family, a small group.” The county manager elaborated when pressed by reporter Brett Jensen of WBT News.