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DC Mayor: Rising numbers show 'COVID fatigue' relaxation

by Ashraf Khalil
| October 14, 2020 3:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in the nation's capital are warning residents not to relax their COVID-19 vigilance as the local infection numbers rise and the winter flu season approaches. More than 20% of new cases are people who had been to a restaurant or bar in the preceding two weeks and nearly a quarter had attended some sort of social event, according to contact tracing interviews.

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