Officials address expanding testing and voting in a pandemic
By Bill Dries, Daily Memphian
Updated: May 12, 2020 12:33 PM CT | Published: May 12, 2020 12:23 PM CT
This COVID-19 Joint Task Force meeting featured the Church Health Center on community testing and Linda Phillips, elections administrator on voting in a pandemic.
Mississippi has 234 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 22 more deaths resulting from the disease, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health.
Gov. Bill Lee wants federal funds to go toward the unemployed, closed businesses and “backfilling” lost revenue. But federal rules don’t allow the funds to go toward filling holes in the budget caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
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