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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.
With protests continuing throughout the area this past weekend, including in Hellertown itself, many local school districts as well as private schools have chosen to issue statements on the George Floyd murder, racism and/or diversity both within their districts as well as America over the past two weeks.
Saturday’s Black Lives Matter demonstration will be held from noon to 2 p.m., rain or shine, outside Hellertown Borough Hall with social distancing guidelines in place to help prevent the spread of the virus.
With the Lehigh Valley’s transition from the red phase of Pennsylvania’s coronavirus reopening to yellow, retail and restaurants in the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley began to come out of a two-and-a-half month hibernation Friday.
In response to the death of an African-American man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer who Friday was charged with third-degree murder, Lehigh Valley residents are organizing events to be held in solidarity with other protests against racism and police brutality around the nation.
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.
Although the rate of infection has slowed dramatically thanks to public health and safety measures, statistics related to COVID-19’s spread both across Pennsylvania and beyond continue to define the outbreak in unsettling terms.
As people have been sheltering in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, nature has been given a chance to breathe and reset. However some people, like Kyra Thompson, have been using their free time to give nature a hand in restoring itself.
Donald Trump made his first visit as president to the Lehigh Valley Thursday, and hundreds of area residents lined the roads around Lehigh Valley International Airport to watch it begin.
The Lehigh Valley will receive a visit from President Donald Trump Thursday, according to published media reports.
