{"id":11745,"date":"2022-04-13T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=11745"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:31:03","slug":"mask-mandate-extended-for-yakima-transit-yakima-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/mask-mandate-extended-for-yakima-transit-yakima-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask Mandate Extended for Yakima Transit, Yakima Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal mask requirement related to public transportation has been extended through May 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakima Transit employees and passengers will need to continue wearing masks\/face coverings while on board the bus and utilizing Dial-A-Ride services. The mask mandate extension also applies to passengers and personnel at the Yakima Airport terminal and on flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) originally announced the public transportation mask requirement would be in place through April 18<sup>th<\/sup>. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/news\/press\/statements\/2022\/04\/13\/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-through-may-3-2022\">announcement<\/a> today, Wednesday, the TSA extended it an additional 15 days through May 3<sup>rd<\/sup> due to concerns about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, especially the BA 2 subvariant that makes up more than 85 percent of U.S. cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince early April 2022, there have been increases in the 7-day moving average of COVID-19 cases in the United States,\u201d the TSA said in today\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimatransit.org\">www.yakimatransit.org<\/a> for more about Yakima Transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/flyykm.com\/\">FLY YKM | Yakima&#8217;s Best Way to Travel<\/a> for more about the Yakima Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-96291556-60b8-43cd-a7b2-b1be6c644021\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Public-Transport-Mask-Mandate-Extension-News-Release.pdf\">Public-Transport-Mask-Mandate-Extension-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Public-Transport-Mask-Mandate-Extension-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-96291556-60b8-43cd-a7b2-b1be6c644021\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal mask requirement related to public transportation has been extended through May 3rd. Yakima Transit employees and passengers will need to continue wearing masks\/face coverings while on board the bus and utilizing Dial-A-Ride services. The mask mandate extension also applies to passengers and personnel at the Yakima Airport terminal and on flights. In March,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11747,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11745\/revisions\/11747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}