Fayetteville Municipal Health Board Warns of Looming COVID-19 Variant Surge

The Fayetteville City Board of Health, one of only a few such boards authorized in the state, is meeting more frequently to address a COVID-19 outbreak in the city driven by the Delta variant. Top of the agenda are how to protect incoming college and public school students, as well as residents, given a majority Conservative state legislature has banned both muncipal emergency ordinances, as well as state executive emergency declarations.