{"id":46232,"date":"2020-06-18T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/inslee-announces-updated-religious-faith-based-services-guidance\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:24:34","slug":"inslee-announces-updated-religious-faith-based-services-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/inslee-announces-updated-religious-faith-based-services-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Inslee announces updated religious, faith-based services guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jay Inslee announced updated health guidance for religious and faith-based services on Thursday, June 18, as more counties move forward under Washington&rsquo;s Safe Start recovery plan.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 3 would permit indoor capacity of 50% or 400 people, whichever is less, according to a Office of the Governor&rsquo;s news release. Health requirements for social distancing and facial coverings will remain the same as the guidance for previous phases.<\/p>\n<p>For services taking place in modified Phase 1 and Phase 2 counties, indoor services at 25% capacity or 200 people, whichever is less. In health guidance for services taking place in Phase 1 counties, only outdoor services are permitted, with no more than 100 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>King County has been in a modified Phase 1 for two weeks. King County officials applied to the state Department of Health this week to move into Phase 2. A state decision is expected by Friday, June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Find the full religious and faith-based services guidance document by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Phase%201-3%20-%20Religious%20and%20faith-based%20orgs%20FINAL_6%2018%202020.pdf?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For guidelines on businesses and workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.wa.gov\/issues\/issues\/covid-19-resources\/covid-19-reopening-guidance-businesses-and-workers?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"biz\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modified Phase 1, Phase 2 allow indoor services at 25% capacity or 200 people, whichever is less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":46233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-46232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46232"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}