Another Kansas City area community is making masks mandatory amid a surge of coronavirus cases.
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, announced Saturday in a tweet that a requirement that masks be worn in public will go into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The community made the announcement one day after Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas said that people must wear masks inside businesses and other public places there starting Monday.
The number of confirmed conornavirus cases in Wyandotte County rose Friday to 2,108, up 12% from one week earlier. It’s one of the hardest hit counties in the state, which is now recording 13,538 cases and 264 deaths.