Inslee announces holiday rollbacks

Restrictions reinstituted on dining, retail, business and other areas to reduce increased spread of Covid-19

OLYMPIA – In what was probably one of the worst kept secrets of 2020, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced a new set of restrictions on Sunday, Nov. 15, that officials hope will lead to a reduction in the rapid spread of Covid-19 in the state.

According to a Nov. 15 news release, the four-week restrictions, most amounting to rollbacks of ongoing restrictions and most of which went into effect Monday, Nov. 16, come as Washington is seeing “consistent increasing daily case counts” that have led to over 2,000 cases per day over last weekend and a doubling of counts across the state the past two w...

 

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