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Utah Gov. Cox bucks county-wide mask mandates, exempts state-run facilties from COVID-19 masking

Utah is currently facing record-high coronavirus cases driven by the more transmissible omicron COVID-19 variant.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) "There is no way the Legislature is going to approve a mask mandate at this stage," Gov. Spencer J. Cox said on Tuesday, during his administration's update on the ongoing pandemic, Aug. 31, 2021 at the Capitol.