Some Restaurants are Staying Open 12:07 am On Saturday, Governor Tom Wolf’s new Covid-19 mitigation efforts took effect, some local businesses have had to make more changes to their daily operations, and others chose not to. Those not following the orders saying it’s a matter of staying open now or closing forever. “He says you need to shut down, but who is he to tell anybody to shut down,” says Antonio Serradella, owner of Bella Italia Pizza in Altoona. Serradella says he resisted the last shutdown order, and he won’t be told to close his doors to all of his patrons this time either.