New cases in the state have recently been declining but 'we aren't ready to ease restrictions yet,' Gov. Inslee announced on Tuesday evening.
The state's lockdown exit plan entails three main objectives. They aim to"Protect the health of Washingtonians first; Get people back to work - safely; Support our community through the recovery," Inslee noted on Twitter.
"We need to be processing between 20,000 and 30,000 tests a day for our contact-tracing plan to work," Inslee said. "Public health experts agree that the true number of people who have been infected with COVID-19 in Washington greatly exceeds the number of COVID-19 infections that have been laboratory-confirmed. It is very difficult to know exactly how many people in Washington have been infected to date since most people with COVID-19 experience mild illness and the ability to get tested is still not widely available," the department notes.
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