{"id":15893,"date":"2020-07-25T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:54:38","slug":"us-capital-orders-self-quarantine-for-hot-spot-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15893","title":{"rendered":"US capital orders self-quarantine for hot spot visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered Friday all visitors on non-essential travel coming from coronavirus hot spots to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know, unfortunately, that there are states that are seeing significant spikes in new cases,&#8221; Bowser said during a coronavirus news briefing. &#8220;We know that there are places where people are not being as cautious, or making the sacrifices that we&#8217;re making here in D.C. And unfortunately when people travel in and out of D.C. from these places, that can put our community&#8217;s health at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The order, which goes into effect Monday, applies to all non-essential travelers coming from &#8220;high-risk areas.&#8221; People who have to go on essential travel should only leave home to perform essential duties for the 14 days after they arrive, the order further stipulates.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chigh-risk areas\u201d are not named in the order, but it says they will be identified as &#8220;locations where the seven (7)-day moving average daily new COVID-19 case rate is ten (10) or more per one hundred thousand (100,000) persons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. Department of Health will post a list of those areas on Monday, and will update the list every two weeks. Maryland and Virginia are exempt, likely because of the high-level of essential travel between the states and the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The order will be effective through Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. has seen rising numbers of cases this week, recording 78 on Thursday, raising its seven-day average to 76, the highest since June 8, according to official data. In all, 581 people have died in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser&#8217;s order goes into effect Monday. It is the second she issued this week after mandating everyone must don a mask after leaving their home in a bid to tamp down the spike in cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered Friday all visitors on non-essential travel coming from coronavirus hot spots to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the nation&#8217;s capital. &#8220;We know, unfortunately, that there are states that are seeing significant spikes in new cases,&#8221; Bowser said during a coronavirus news briefing. &#8220;We know that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15893","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\/15893","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=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15895,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}