Flowers left next to the sign that marks the entrance to the parking lot of the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. are shown Monday, March 9, 2020, near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
March 12, 2020
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March 12, 2020 8:23 p.m.
Inslee orders all greater Seattle area schools to close
OLYMPIA (AP) — As the death toll from the new coronavirus reached at least 31 in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday ordered that all public and private K-12 schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties be closed for six weeks.