Pennsylvania is tightening its mask command and passengers outside the state will need to take a negative test for coronavirus before arrival, health officials announced Tuesday, taking additional measures to take into account infections and hospital admissions.
Secretary of State for Health, Dr. “Masks are now needed where people from different households gather,” Rachel Levine said Tuesday. Order Applies to every indoor facility, including private homes, but Levine acknowledged that officials rely on voluntary compliance rather than enforcement.
Health officials said the fall was partly due to the relentless spread of the virus, partly due to small gatherings in small buildings, and it remains to be seen how many COVID-tired Pennsylvania residents will comply with the order to wear masks inside Levine’s homes and other buildings where the state reaches. Is limited.
Levin said how Pennsylvania rentals in the coming weeks and months will largely depend on people’s desire to wear masks and stay away from each other.
“Ultimately, people suffer the consequences of their actions, their families and their communities, and if they don’t wear masks, those communities will see a further spread of COVID if they don’t keep social distance,” he said.
A separate injunction mandates that people traveling from another state to Pennsylvania, as well as Pennsylvania residents who are returning from outside the state, must undergo a negative test. For viruses within 72 hours before arrival. This order does not apply to people traveling back and forth for work or medical treatment. Those who refuse the test will have to be kept apart for 14 days, Levin said.
Again, the state has no plans to implement the measure, but is demanding voluntary compliance.
Like the rest of the nation, coronavirus infections have erupted in Pennsylvania in recent weeks. The state is reporting more than 5,000,000 new infections every day, up more than 115% in just two weeks.
Moreover, the number of hospital admissions has increased sixfold since the beginning of the fall. With more than 100,000 COs approaching state registration in early May, more than 100,000 are now in hospitals with COVID-1. According to modeling done by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at Washington Washington University, Pennsylvania will be out of the ICU bed at the admission rate next month.
Test positivity rates have increased and deaths are also on the rise.
Democratic governor. Tom Wolfe enforced the state on short-term businesses that were considered “non-life-sustaining” at the start of the epidemic, but Wolf and Levine have consistently said they have no intention of enforcing a second broad-based shutdown.
On Tuesday, Levine did not rule out additional mitigation measures.
“It’s up to you whether we do anything else or not. It depends on the people, each of us taking responsibility for the well-being of everyone in Pennsylvania, ”Levine said. “And if we all do our part, and we stand in unity, then we don’t need any more solutions.”
The health and education departments on Tuesday also advised colleges and universities to have testing plans For students returning to campus after the holidays. And Levin asked the hospitals To proceed with alternative surgeries and said that they should be prepared to postpone if they are overwhelmed by COVID patients.
Governors and mayors across the country are tightening sanctions In response to a bad epidemic. On Monday, Philadelphia said it would ban indoor gatherings And indoor dining and shutter casinos, gyms, museums and libraries. Last week, suburban Montgomery County, the state’s most populous county, ordered K-12 schools to close individual instruction. Until 6 December.
Pennsylvania already had a statewide mask order, restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings and a ban on business in bars and restaurants.
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To correct this story it has been shown that travelers to Pennsylvania, not 72 days, must undergo a negative test 72 hours before arrival.
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