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Safer-At-Home In NC For Three More Weeks As COVID-19 Cases Show Little Improvement

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Josie Taris
Published June 26, 2020 at 11:48 AM EDT
Gov. Cooper at the June 24 press conference announcing the extension of Phase 2 and the mask mandate.
Gov. Cooper at the June 24 press conference announcing the extension of Phase 2 and the mask mandate.
Gov. Cooper at the June 24 press conference announcing the extension of Phase 2 and the mask mandate.
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Gov. Cooper at the June 24 press conference announcing the extension of Phase 2 and the mask mandate.

North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 of reopening until at least July 17. Governor Roy Cooper also announced a mask requirement that goes into effect today at 5 p.m. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with North Carolina Health News founder and editor Rose Hoban about Gov. Cooper's latest COVID-19 related executive order.

These measures come as the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests hovers at around 9%, up from around 6% in early May. Host Frank Stasio talks with North Carolina Health News founder and editor Rose Hoban on the state’s response to coronavirus cases and how an old law meant to limit Ku Klux Klan activity limits Cooper’s ability to require North Carolinians wear masks in public. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Josie Taris
Josie Taris left her home in Fayetteville in 2014 to study journalism at Northwestern University. There, she took a class called Journalism of Empathy and found her passion in audio storytelling. She hopes every story she produces challenges the audience's preconceptions of the world. After spending the summer of 2018 working in communications for a Chicago nonprofit, she decided to come home to work for the station she grew up listening to. When she's not working, Josie is likely rooting for the Chicago Cubs or petting every dog she passes on the street.
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