January 5, 2021
Wolf Administration Director of Testing and Contact Tracing, Michael Huff, and Special Assistant on Contact Tracing for the Department of Health, Lindsey Mauldin, today presented an update on the state’s COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts, emphasizing the...
January 5, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of State’s Bureau of Enforcement and Investigation (BEI) today released data related to COVID-19 enforcement actions from Dec. 27 through Jan. 3. With the high number of COVID cases across the commonwealth, the...
January 5, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., January 5, that there were 8,818 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 673,915. Due to technical maintenance to the data server on...
January 4, 2021
Senate Republicans plan to refuse to seat Allegheny County Democratic Sen. Jim Brewster on Swearing-in Day Tuesday due to a challenge filed by his GOP opponent. Brewster, who has represented the 45th senatorial district seat since 2010, was certified by the Department...
January 4, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today shared its weekly update on Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing data and encouraged Pennsylvanians to download the COVID Alert PA appOpens In A New Window, as more than 731,000...
January 4, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Control Enforcement Officers visited 1,091 licensed liquor establishments from Thursday, December 31, 2020 through Sunday, January 3, 2021 to ensure businesses are abiding by COVID-19 mitigation requirements,...
January 4, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 40,407, a...
January 4, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., January 4, that there were 3,226 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 4,579 new cases reported Sunday, January 3 for a two-day total of...
January 2, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., January 2, there were 9,253 new cases, in addition to 7,714 new cases reported Friday, January 1 for a two-day total of 16,967 additional positive cases of COVID-19,...
December 31, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., December 31, that there were 8,992 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 640,325. There are 5,962 individuals hospitalized with...
December 31, 2020
Annville, PA – Today the Wolf Administration released the independent investigative Report on the Southeastern Veterans’ Center’s (SEVC) early handling of COVID-19. The review was conducted by an outside law firm to independently assess the SEVC’s...
December 31, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Control Enforcement Officers visited 694 licensed liquor establishments from Monday, December 28 through Wednesday, December 30 to ensure businesses are abiding by COVID-19 mitigation requirements, including the...
December 31, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today announced beginning Monday, January 4, regional drive-thru and indoor walk-in testing clinics will be held in Crawford, Dauphin, Lehigh, Somerset and Union counties. The counties with testing...
December 30, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine today announced the launch of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, now available on the department’s website. The dashboard includes information on the number of vaccinations...
December 30, 2020
The time-limited mitigation orders put in place on Dec. 12 have helped to begin flattening the curve of new cases following the post-Thanksgiving surge in Pennsylvania. As a result, today Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced that...
December 30, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today announced the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program has begun vaccinating residents and staff at 126 Pennsylvania skilled nursing facilities using the...
December 30, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today signed an order directing that a percentage of all vaccine distributions to hospitals, health systems, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and pharmacies be designated for health...
December 30, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., December 30, that there were 8,984 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 631,333. There are 6,022 individuals hospitalized with...
December 29, 2020
As we enter what should be a time of spiritual reflection of the year about to end, we are reminded of the failure of the majority in the General Assembly to help families across the Commonwealth in 2020. In May, a bipartisan proposal to use the Commonwealth’s share...
December 29, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Agriculture today released data related to COVID-19 restaurant enforcement actions from December 21 through December 27, 2020. The information is specific to COVID-19 mitigation requirements for restaurants, including...
December 29, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of State’s Bureau of Enforcement and Investigation (BEI) today released data related to COVID-19 enforcement actions from Dec. 20 through Dec. 27. With the high number of COVID cases across the commonwealth, the...
December 29, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., December 29, that there were 8,545 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 622,349. There are 5,995 individuals hospitalized with...
December 28, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today shared its weekly update on Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing data and encouraged Pennsylvanians to download the COVID Alert PA app, as more than 720,000 have already done, to aid...
December 28, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System DashboardOpens In A New Window,...
December 28, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., December 28, that there were 3,779 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 4,884 new cases reported Sunday, December 27 for a two-day total of 8,663,...
December 28, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf thanked Congress for providing relief to Pennsylvanians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor released the following statement: “I am pleased that the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Package was signed into law last night. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
December 28, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Control Enforcement Officers visited 454 licensed liquor establishments from Thursday, December 24 through Sunday, December 27 to ensure businesses are abiding by COVID-19 mitigation requirements, including the...
December 28, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 46,777, a...
December 28, 2020
Pennsylvania is preparing for the new CARES Act extensions for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs, while cautioning that delays by the federal government in approving the legislation will...
December 26, 2020
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., December 25, that there were 7,581 additional positive cases of COVID-19, and as of 12:00 a.m., December 26 there were 7,174 additional positive cases bringing the...
