Come 8 a.m. Monday, restaurants and bars can reopen for indoor dining at a quarter or half of their occupancy. Bowling alleys, hair salons, museums and casinos can open their doors up to 50% capacity. And other in-person businesses can operate up to 75% capacity.
Hearing that Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Wednesday he is lifting these stricter time-limited COVID-19 mitigation orders he first imposed on Dec. 12 is a relief to hard-hit businesses across the commonwealth.
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Wolf said his decision to not extend those orders and returning to the ones in place as of Dec. 11 is based on a plateauing of new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and death rates in the state coupled with the arrival of vaccines and optimism that the three-week mitigation efforts encouraged people to stay home and avoid social gatherings over the holidays.
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