Mar 6, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Reflecting on a year of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday that Pennsylvania has been through a “tough year” but that he sees “light at the end of the tunnel” with the growing availability of vaccines.
Wolf announced on March 6, 2020, that Pennsylvania had confirmed its first two cases of the new coronavirus. Since then, Pennsylvania has counted more than 944,000 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 and attributed more than 24,200 deaths to it.
“I’m not sure there isn’t anybody in Pennsylvania who isn’t frustrated, sad, maybe even grieving for a loved one who has been lost,” Wolf said Friday at a news conference outside a Rite Aid pharmacy in Steelton, where people with appointments were waiting to be vaccinated.