{"id":15268,"date":"2020-06-21T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:41:30","slug":"us-capital-to-begin-phase-2-of-reopening-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15268","title":{"rendered":"DC to begin phase 2 of reopening next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US national capital will begin phase two of its reopening process next week as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to drop, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The district will enter the next phase on Monday after 15 days of sustained drops in community spread, Bowser said in a statement, bringing it in-line with neighboring Virginia and Maryland, with the exception of Montgomery County, which is set to enter phase two later Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After adding 49 cases on Thursday, the district has 9,952 confirmed COVID-19 infections. In all, 530 people have died from the virus in Washington, D.C., including three who died Thursday, while 1,162 of those who contracted the virus have been cleared from isolation.<\/p>\n<p>During phase two restaurants and non-essential retail stores will be allowed to resume indoor activity at half capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Mass gatherings will be limited to 50 people, and places of worship will be allowed to hold services with capacity capped at either 50% or 100 people, whichever is fewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON The US national capital will begin phase two of its reopening process next week as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to drop, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday. The district will enter the next phase on Monday after 15 days of sustained drops in community spread, Bowser said in a statement, bringing it in-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15272,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions\/15272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}