South Dakota Gov. Noem says 'we will not be social distancing' at July 3 Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore with President Trump.
Trump is expected to attend the celebration and deliver remarks at the event, a day before the July Fourth holiday. Mount Rushmore is located within a national park in Keystone, S.D. The event will happen amid a surge in coronavirus infections across the U.S., which has caused some states including Texas to pull back on their plans to further reopen.
White the website for the celebration makes no mention of social distancing or providing face masks, the National Park Service says,"We ask the public to be our partner in adopting social distancing practices when visiting parks." From the beginning of the pandemic, health and government officials have encouraged Americans to practice social distancing at a minimum of 6 feet. Officials have also been urging people to wear facial coverings to prevent further transmission of COVID-19., it says that in order to avoid the illness, people should"avoid close contact with people...stay at home as much as possible," and"put distance between yourself and other people.
As of Tuesday, there are 807 active COVID-19 cases in South Dakota, according the state's department of health. There have been 6,716 positive cases and 91 deaths from the disease. According to a three-day moving average from Johns Hopkins University, there have been on average about 60 new cases a day recently which has remained steady.
Trump, for his part, has declined to wear a face mask throughout the pandemic. As of Sunday, there have been more than 2.5 million positive cases in the U.S. and a death toll of 126,332, according toThe president recently held his first campaign rally in months in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where there was no social distancing and masks weren't required. Since then, at least eight members of Trump's advance team tested positive.
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