St. Francois Health Board to Hold Meeting Tuesday to Determine Mask Mandate

(Farmington) The St. Francois County Health Department Board of Trustees will hold a meeting Tuesday to determine if they will issue an emergency mandate that would require masks to be worn in public. Health Department Director Amber Elliot says the meeting has been moved to accommodate additional interest in this meeting…

At last check the health department has reported 1513 total cases of COVID-19 in St. Francois County with 217 new cases in the last week. 665 of those cases are currently active and 80 have required hospitalization. There have been five confirmed deaths with COVID-19 as a factor with another suspected, but not yet confirmed.
There will be drive through testing available on Monday, September 21 from 7am to 3pm at the Farmington fire house for any Missouri resident…

You can register for the test at health.mo.gov/communitytest or by calling 844-435-8411. Once again the St. Francois County Health Department Board of Trustees will hold a meeting Tuesday to determine if they will issue an emergency mandate that would require masks to be worn in public. The meeting starts at 4:00 at the Centene Center in Farmington.