The rate of positive Covid-19 infections has trailed off across the region and state over the past few weeks.

In mid-November, Yankton County was seeing over one hundred new infections a day with total active cases over six hundred at the peak.

The Yankton City Commission passed a face mask mandate in early December and now there are under seventy active cases.
Mayor Nathan Johnson says he thinks the mandate played a part…

Johnson says they tried to work with the best information they had at the time….

Johnson says they got pressure from a lot of different directions…

State health officials are still encouraging the use of face masks, social distancing and other hygiene practices until vaccines are widely distributed.