Source: WUNC, 10/29/21


There’s a steady decline in COVID-19 cases in North Carolina — a trend that Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday called “good news." People are eating at restaurants, attending concerts and sporting events. And they’re going to the zoo. The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro has entertained a record number of visitors since reopening during the pandemic. June 2021 set a record with 103,898 visitors — the most of any June in the zoo’s history.

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