Updated: 6:20 AM EDT May 5, 2021 Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf s administration announced Tuesday that COVID-19 mitigation orders, except masking, will be lifted on Memorial Day, which is May 31.The order requiring Pennsylvanians to wear masks will be lifted when 70% of Pennsylvanians age 18 and older are fully vaccinated, the administration said. Face coverings are required to be worn indoors and outdoors if you are away from your home. In accordance with the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, fully vaccinated Pennsylvanians are not required to wear a mask during certain activities. We continue to make significant progress in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and as more Pennsylvania adults get vaccinated and guidance from the CDC evolves, we can continue to move forward with our reopening efforts, Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam said in a news release. I encourage Pennsylvanians to take the critical steps needed to pu
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The Wolf administration says it will lift all COVID-19 mitigation restrictions on Memorial Day, with the exception of the universal masking order.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health says the masking order will expire once 70% of the adult population, or about 7,113,000 people, is fully vaccinated.
The DOH said that according to the CDC s vaccine tracker, 41.8% of 10.16 million adult Pennsylvanians have been fully vaccinated. Additionally, people vaccinated across state borders, or through Veterans Affairs hospitals and federal prisons, are excluded from Pennsylvania s public data totals.
“We continue to make significant progress in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and as more Pennsylvania adults get vaccinated and guidance from the CDC evolves, we can continue to move forward with our reopening efforts,” Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam said.
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Normalcy is returning in Pennsylvania where officials announced COVID-19 mitigation efforts will be lifted Memorial Day Weekend.
Capacity limits on restaurants, bars, indoor and outdoor gatherings will be lifted on May 31, Governor Tom Wolf s administration said Tuesday.
The public mask mandate will be lifted when 70 percent of the population including those 18 and older are vaccinated.
As of Tuesday, 42 percent of Pennsylvanians were vaccinated, with 63 percent of individuals ages 18 and over had gotten at least one dose, federal data shows.
Effective May 31, we are lifting COVID mitigation orders.
The masking order will be lifted when 70% of Pennsylvania adults are fully vaccinated.
There will be one exception, the mask mandate.
May 4, 2021
PHOTO: OFFICE OF GOV. TOM WOLF
The Memorial Day holiday will be extra special in Pennsylvania this year. Gov. Tom Wolf announced Tuesday that’s when all of the COVID mitigation orders will be lifted in Pennsylvania, with the exception of the mask mandate. Wolf says the current mask requirements will stay in place until 70% of the Pennsylvanians 18 and older are fully vaccinated.
As of Tuesday morning, 32% of Pennsylvania adults were fully vaccinated and slightly more than 50% had received their first shots.
“We continue to make significant progress in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and as more Pennsylvania adults get vaccinated and guidance from the CDC evolves, we can continue to move forward with our reopening efforts,” Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam said. “I encourage Pennsylvanians to take the critical steps needed to put this pandemic behind us by getting vaccinated, follow th