Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
The D.C. Department of Health on Monday removed Delaware from an updated list of “high-risk” states from which D.C. residents and visitors are required to self-quarantine for 14 days upon their return or arrival in the District if their travel is considered non-essential, including vacation related travel.
LGBTQ D.C. residents who own second homes or who are regular visitors to the popular Delaware resort town of Rehoboth Beach and other Delaware beach towns were among those expected to be adversely impacted by the self-quarantine requirement for Delaware.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an order last month establishing the quarantine rule, which defines high-risk states as those in which the seven-day moving average of daily new COVID-19