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Tampa Mayor Jane Castor frustrated by maskless partiers around Super Bowl

TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Mayor Jane Castor expressed some frustration Monday over individuals not following her executive order for masks to be worn in certain outdoor areas of the city. The city handed out over 200,000 masks, and still places like Ybor City were packed with maskless crowds of partiers and concert-goers during weekend Super Bowl festivities.

"It is a little frustrating because we have worked so hard in cooperation with the NFL and the county and just a number of different entities, putting the executive order in place that masks had to be worn in specific areas that we knew groups would be congregating," said Castor, the City of Tampa's former chief of police.