Are slivers of hope this morning when it comes to easing restrictions in Montgomery County but getting to re opening will take a bit longer according this morning to county officials Montgomery county executive Marc Elrich says he is not ready to give a date for reopening the county to match the state's phase one relaxation on covert nineteen restrictions but county health officer Dr Travis gale said there are some hopeful signs nine of the past fourteen days we have seen decreases in the number of new cases overall dance calls the spike of more than seventeen hundred cases in a single day on Tuesday an aberration Kate Ryan WTOP