Pennsylvania to Ease More COVID Restrictions
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The move announced March 15 by the Democrat will expand more business and event capacity limits and lift coronavirus restrictions on bar service starting on Easter Sunday.
Bars and restaurants in the Commonwealth will be able to raise indoor capacity limits to a maximum of 75 percent from the current 50 percent, but still must follow the state’s mask-wearing and social-distancing requirements.
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Also changing will be the service cut off time for bars. Taverns and other establishments were not allowed to serve alcohol after 11 p.m. That is being lifted along with the ban on patrons being seated at a bar and having to order food to go along with their cocktails, wine and beer.
An analysis by the Action News Data Team shows some of Philadelphia s suburban counties are being vastly short-changed on vaccines.
The four suburban counties released a statement about Sunday s meeting stating, This afternoon s meeting with the PA Department of Health was both disappointing and frustrating. There remains a lack of transparency on the total doses that have come to our counties from every source. Therefore, we have no way to assess how the data presented to us today was calculated, and how those calculations have been used to determine the number of doses that have been allocated to our four counties. Additionally, we were not given any indication of the plan to make up acknowledged shortfalls to certain counties going forward.
18 family members get COVID-19 after holiday gathering in Pennsylvania
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MILMONT PARK, Pennsylvania A family s holiday party in Pennsylvania turned out to be its own superspreader event.
It was on Dec. 26 that 55-year-old Darlene Reynolds woke up with a scratchy tickle in her throat. This was one day before she was planning to have family members come over from as far as Canada for a holiday gathering. I had no fever because I kept checking it - no fever, no fever, no fever. I said, I ll keep a distance since I have a tiny little cough, said Reynolds.