{"id":50445,"date":"2021-06-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-lifts-mask-mandate-as-70-of-residents-are-fully-vaccinated\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T17:31:35","slug":"king-county-lifts-mask-mandate-as-70-of-residents-are-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-lifts-mask-mandate-as-70-of-residents-are-fully-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"King County lifts mask mandate as 70% of residents are fully vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"
King County’s public health department announced June 29 that the mask mandate has been lifted as 70% of King County residents are fully vaccinated from COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Now that the county’s mask mandate has been lifted, the Washington state mask guidance is in effect in King County.<\/p>\n
Fully vaccinated people can go maskless in most settings, both outside and indoors. However, businesses and other establishments still have the right to require customers to wear masks.<\/p>\n
Unvaccinated people should still wear masks indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.<\/p>\n
The lifting of King County’s mask mandate comes a day before the state is scheduled to re-open. Most COVID-19 restrictions are set to be lifted Wednesday, June 30. According to Department of Health data<\/a>, as of June 28, 68.8% of Washington residents age 16 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, just shy of the 70% goal.<\/p>\n