PHOENIX – Arizona mayors are free to make wearing face masks to slow the spread of coronavirus a mandatory requirement, Gov.
Doug Ducey said Wednesday.The Republican governor, who entered a news conference wearing a black face mask but took it off to speak, said giving cities the discretion to decide would work better than a statewide mandate.
He also cited the vastly different rates of positive COVID-19 cases across counties.“For some things, a statewide directive or executive order works very well,” Ducey said. “If you have 12 or 13 counties that say ‘pound sand’ on an executive order ...