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Shoppers with various takes on mask use in a grocery store in Macon on August 4, 2020. Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB
In response to a rise in COVID-19 infections in Georgia, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has reinstated a mask mandate in Atlanta. Gov. Brian Kemp's office issued a statement saying that mandates only create division and unnecessarily divert critical resources.
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