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Healthcare facilities mask mandate to stay in place in Washington

by CHERYL SCHWEIZER
Staff Writer | September 23, 2022 1:25 AM

OLYMPIA — While most emergency orders issued by Gov. Jay Inslee in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic will end Oct. 31, the order requiring masks in healthcare facilities, and in jails and prisons in some situations, will not. Washington Secretary of Health Umair Shah said in a briefing Thursday that conditions still don’t support ending that mandate.

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