On the Week in Review for July 5-11, WABE Managing Editor Alex Helmick highlights stories from our journalists on local governments issuing mask mandates amid the surge in new, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Georgia. Some local governments in Georgia are requiring people in public to wear them so as not to spread the disease. Savannah was the first and several followed, including Atlanta on Wednesday.
“We’ve given a lot of thought to it, and we will be going forward with a mask ordinance in our city,” said Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday to WABE’s Emma Hurt.
According to the governor’s office, no local government can issue stricter rules than those that come from the state. Gov. Brian Kemp’s office has called the move by local governments “unenforceable.”
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