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Panama's 2nd biggest Indigenous group votes to ban masks

| October 27, 2020 12:06 AM

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A cultural body for the Guna Yala people in Panama voted Monday to ban the wearing of face masks used to combat coronavirus infections, arguing “it is not a custom of our people.”

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