View Comments The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended mask-wearing for everyone in K-12 schools to quell spiking COVID-19 cases around the nation, but Mississippi's governor is not planning to follow suit. With the 2021-2022 school year approaching, Gov. Tate Reeves said he "has no intention of requiring students and staff to wear masks when they’re in school this fall." Those in areas with a substantial or high risk of virus transmission, regardless of vaccination status, should begin wearing masks again indoors as new scientific data show the COVID-19 delta variant has caused breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people, the CDC officials urged.