More Counties In Pennsylvania Get “Yellow Light”

May 15, 2020 2:19 am

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Friday 12 more counties will soon be joining a multitude of counties that have moved in the “yellow phase” of his reopening plan.  Wolf announced that effective May 22nd, Adams, Beaver, Carbon, Columbia, Cumberland, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Wayne and York will be the next batch of counties moving to the “yellow” phase of his reopening plan. That means the governor’s stay-at-home orders are lifted and retailers and other types of businesses may reopen but with restrictions.  Wolf though, said he hasn’t changed his criteria for deciding which counties can emerge from his stay-at-home order and his business shutdown order. His health secretary echoed that, saying the administration will continue to count cases in prisons, factories and nursing homes in a county’s total. That is bad news for counties that blame much of their outbreak on a single institution.