{"id":47928,"date":"2020-11-14T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/inslee-to-hold-news-conference-to-announce-new-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-11-14T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T01:57:00","slug":"inslee-to-hold-news-conference-to-announce-new-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/inslee-to-hold-news-conference-to-announce-new-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Inslee to hold news conference to announce new restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has scheduled a news conference for Sunday morning as COVID-19 case numbers have soared throughout the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Inslee&rsquo;s office said he would discuss action to combat the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting industry sources briefed by his staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/inslee-to-ban-indoor-gatherings-and-dining-plus-issue-more-covid-19-restrictions-for-washington-state-industry-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Seattle Times on Saturday reported<\/a> that the governor will announce a ban on indoor gatherings and indoor service at restaurants and bars, as well as occupancy limits for retailers, including grocery stores, among other measures.<\/p>\n<p>For the second day in a row Saturday, Washington health officials reported a record number of daily coronavirus cases, with 2,233 new infections as of 11:59 p.m. Friday. That brought the state&rsquo;s totals to 127,731 cases and 2,519 deaths since the outbreak began in January. In Snohomish County, there have been 11,158 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 247 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/northwest\/california-oregon-washington-issue-virus-travel-advisories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued travel advisories<\/a> urging people entering or returning to their states to self-quarantine to slow the spread of the coronavirus as infections spike across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Report compiled from the Associated Press and (Everett) Herald staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among them, reportedly, will be a ban on indoor service at restaurants and retail limitations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":47929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,24],"tags":[89],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-47928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","category-northwest","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47928"}],"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=47928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47928"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}