Schuylkill, Carbon added to Stay-at-Home order
HARRISBURG, Dauphin County – Schuylkill and Carbon Counties are now under Governor Tom Wolf’s Stay-at-Home order, along with Luzerne County in our area.
Wolf announced the additions in his 2:00pm press conference Monday afternoon, along with Dauphin and Cumberland Counties, bringing the total of counties under the order to 26.
According to the Department of Health’s update Monday, Schuylkill County has 30 confirmed cases of coronavirus, an addition of 19. The statewide total is now 4,087, an increase of 693 from yesterday’s total. Carbon County has 13 confirmed cases, Columbia has 6, Luzerne has 150 with 3 deaths, and Northumberland has 1.
“If you are living in one of the 26 counties under my stay-at-home order, you should only leave your house if it is absolutely necessary,” Governor Wolf said in the conference. “
The stay-at-home order, he said, would be in effect until April 30.
Details on the stay-at-home order can be viewed here: https://www.pa.gov/guides/responding-to-covid-19/#StayatHomeOrder
“This virus is really sneaky,” Wolf said. “Someone can be carrying it for two weeks without showing any symptoms whatsoever. You don’t know who has it, you don’t know if you have it, so we must all act as if we do have it.”
“We must self-isolate, we must eliminate the further spread of this disease by staying home,” Wolf said.
The Commonwealth has a website set up for information on the coronavirus, which can be viewed here: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx
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