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Editor s note: This story has been updated to clarify the latest statistics from Kitsap Public Health District.
With COVID-19 cases on a dramatic rise in Kitsap in recent weeks, the county faces the possibility of tighter restrictions and being sent back a phase in the state’s reopening plan next week.
Counties must either keep new case rates below 200 cases per 100,000 residents over a two-week period or new hospitalizations below 5 per 100,000 over a one-week period to stay in Phase 3. In a statement to the Kitsap Sun on Friday, Kitsap Public Health District Administrator Keith Grellner noted that Kitsap’s case rate is now well above 200 and that the most recent data from the state’s Department of Health showed the hospitalization rate was just over 5, but said that the rate of new hospitalizations fluctuates from day to day, making it very difficult to project whether we will be above the state’s threshold of 5 per 100,000 for last seven days.
Union seeks hazard pay for grocery store workers across Western Washington KIRO 7 News Staff
Though grocery store workers are receiving additional hazard pay in Seattle and Burien, their union wants all grocery store workers across Western Washington to get that pay as well.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 21 held a news conference Tuesday morning announcing a campaign to make that happen.
The union said while grocery stores provided hazard pay to workers for a few months during the start of the pandemic, it was cut in May. Since then, grocery stores have refused to reinstate it, though workers have “more tasks, stress, challenges, profits, and as if there weren’t a risk of getting a deadly virus,” the union said in a news release.