{"id":133353,"date":"2020-07-23T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=133353"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:42:16","slug":"county-health-dept-has-mask-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/07\/23\/county-health-dept-has-mask-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"County Health Dept. has mask statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County General Health District has released the following statement in connection with Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s order mandating the wearing of face masks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/VW-County-Health-Dept.-logo-3-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85776\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile Van Wert County has been fortunate to keep our case number low, we ask all of our community members to help us continue to slow the spread by wearing a cloth face covering when in public and other areas as specified in the Governor\u2019s mask order.\u00a0\u00a0The order goes into place today, Thursday, July 23, at 6 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy wearing a cloth face covering we can lower the risk of transmission of the virus to others including our family, friends, and co-workers.\u00a0\u00a0Be considerate of others and continue to help slow the spread by wearing a cloth face covering, practicing social distancing, washing hands frequently, covering your coughs and sneezes, and staying home when you are sick.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County General Health District has released the following statement in connection with Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s order mandating the wearing of face masks: \u201cWhile Van Wert County has been fortunate to keep our case number low, we ask all of our community members to help us continue to slow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 19:25:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}