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Fort Smith Public Schools voted Monday at a called board meeting to reinstate a mask mandate for 30 days or unless the district falls to 49 or less cases per 10,000 residents before that time.
If the district goes below 50 cases per 10,000 for a consecutive 14-day period, it will fall into the orange category as determined by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI). The district is now in the purple category, which indicates 100-199 infections per 10,000 residents, according to ACHI, which listed 125 new infections in Fort Smith Public Schools Jan. 8, up from 44 Jan. 3.
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