Philadelphia is allowing bar seating to resume at restaurants for the first time amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The city is also permitting eateries that offer outdoor dining to increase capacity to more than 50 people at a time as the warm weather months arrive.
After the MOVE bombing in 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department killed 11 adults and five children by dropping a bomb on a house, two of the children’s bodies were handed over for analysis to a forensic anthropologist. To the horror of online activists, he never gave them back. Featured Video Hide
MOVE is a Black liberation and environmentalist group that was designated a terrorist organization by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor and Mayor Wilson Goode. Advertisement Hide
The bombing was the culmination of a siege in which tear gas, water cannons, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were fired on the house that had 12 adult MOVE members and six children inside. The bomb set the house on fire, and the commissioner prevented firefighters from responding, reportedly ordering them to “let the fire burn.”
One month after schools reopened, Pennsylvania enters fourth surge of pandemic
The coronavirus continues to spread through Pennsylvania at an alarming rate, with the state now recording nearly 5,000 cases a day, double the rate a month ago. An average of 40 people are dying across the state each day, and the surge of new cases portends a new wave of deaths in the coming weeks. The number of hospitalizations has doubled since mid-March to almost 3,000, 20 percent of which are in intensive care units (ICUs).
Pennsylvania classroom with in-person instruction (Credit: Conestoga Valley School District Facebook page)
This rapid rise in cases and hospitalizations takes place roughly a month after schools reopened in Philadelphia and throughout the state, and is occurring despite the ramping up of vaccinations. More than 42 percent of Pennsylvanians have received their first shot and 25 percent are fully vaccinated. However, there are still millions of people who are vulnerable to infecti
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Virus cases and hospitalizations rise sharply in Pennsylvania, and dozens of other states see high caseloads.
People social distancing at the Horticultural Center in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 4, as cherry blossoms began blooming.Credit.Hannah Beier for The New York Times
April 17, 2021, 2:36 p.m. ET
Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are surging in Pennsylvania, as state officials warn of trends seen across the country: increased travel levels, relaxing restrictions and the spread of more contagious virus variants.
Pennsylvania is reporting an average of 4,922 cases a day, up from roughly 2,515 a month ago, according to a New York Times database. Hospitalizations have also climbed about 16 percent in the past two weeks, and the state now has one of the highest per capita daily case counts in the country. Deaths, which tend to lag behind infections by weeks, have started to slightly increase again after plunging from the state’s high of an average of 222 in mid