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New COVID-19 case counts continue to creep up in parts of Pennsylvania; a trend that is also occurring nationally, prompting concern that the coronavirus pandemic’s so-called “second wave” is about to strike.
Statewide the number of new cases of novel coronavirus continues to fall, however around Pennsylvania are areas identified as “hot spots” due to an increase in the average number of new cases over a one-week period. Lehigh County is one of them, some of the latest data indicates.
The much-anticipated announcement that the Lehigh Valley’s two counties will move from the yellow to the green phase of Pennsylvania’s coronavirus reopening plan was made Friday by Gov. Tom Wolf.
Gov. Tom Wolf made it official Friday. Lehigh, Northampton and the other eight counties that are still in the “red” phase of Pennsylvania’s coronavirus shutdown will move to the yellow phase of reopening at 12:01 a.m. next Friday, June 5.
The owner of a Hanover Township, Lehigh County fitness facility was cited for opening his business Sunday in defiance of the state’s Disease Prevention and Control Law, Pennsylvania State Police at Bethlehem announced Monday.
A Hanover Township, Lehigh County gym owner made good on his promise to reopen his facility Sunday, in defiance of a state order that has shuttered gyms since March.
A comparison of Pennsylvania Department of Health health data from several local “red” counties–and one already in the yellow zone–demonstrates that there was actually a percentage increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in a few of them last week.
Pennsylvanians who live in the state’s so-called “red counties” can expect to see some loosening of restrictions associated with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order–enacted to help stop the spread of the coronavirus–by June 5, Wolf said Friday.
New data released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health is revealing just how extensively COVID-19 has spread in many of the area’s nursing homes and personal care facilities.
Although Pennsylvania officials have strongly encouraged residents to vote by mail in the upcoming primary election because of the coronavirus pandemic, many people plan to vote in person June 2, and in some cases that will mean traveling to a new polling place.
