Gov. Inslee to visit Tri-Cities on Tuesday to discuss the local COVID-19 battle

Gov. Jay Inslee will visit the Tri-Cities on Tuesday, June 30, to talk about the community’s COVID-19 response and recovery.

He will meet with Tri-Cities public health and elected officials and invited business and community leaders at Columbia Basin College in Pasco.

No public events are planned.

Inslee will be joined by John Wiesman, the state’s secretary of health, and Dr. Raquel Bono, the Washington state director of pandemic health response.

This will be the governor’s third recent visit to hot spots where the coronavirus is spreading in Eastern Washington.

He visited Yakima on June 16 and Spokane on June 25.

Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties are the only ones in the state that have not been given permission to move past Phase 1 of business reopening. All three have high numbers of new cases.

Spokane County is in Phase 2 of reopening, but has had a recent spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases.