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No Public Mandate for Wearing Face Masks

No Public Mandate for Wearing Face Masks

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Wal-Mart has become the latest large retailer to mandate wearing masks to be able to enter their stores. Some states are also mandating masks in public as coronavirus infection numbers spike again.
South Dakota Department of Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon says they continue to follow CDC guidance on wearing masks….

Malsam-Rysdon says the state will not be issuing any kind of mask mandate….

Malsam-Rysdon says businesses can decide how they want to manage people coming in their doors without government interference…..

South Dakota has now detected over seventy six hundred positive cases with over eight hundred forty still active.

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