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WATCH: State Health Officials To Share COVID-19 Update

WUNC

Published July 29, 2021 at 2:58 PM EDT

Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, speaks during a May 26 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C.

Following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recent changes to masking recommendations, Gov. Cooper and members of the Coronavirus Task Force hold a live briefing to share the latest on COVID-19 policies in the state. North Carolina continues to see rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations associated with the highly contagious Delta variant.

Watch live at 3 p.m. Thurs. July 29 here:

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