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Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Twenty-seven Westmoreland County Prison inmates tested positive for the coronavirus Monday as three units housing prisoners remained on lockdown, according to interim Warden George Lawther. Inmates on the C, J and D units are able to shower, participate in recreation and make phone calls and video visits, but they are otherwise remaining in their cells as the outbreak that started in late November continues, Lawther said. A lockdown of A unit was lifted las...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said in April that a second round of coronavirus was “inevitable.” “If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well,” Fauci said at the time. “If we don’t do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.” Pennsylvania, like many of the states around it, was in a lockdown for the first few months of the pandemic. Brick and mortar schools were closed, replaced with online learning. Business categ...

kstephens@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — About 90 Blair County Prison inmates who previously tested negative for COVID-19 are in the process of being tested again, Warden Abbie Tate told the county prison board Thursday. With 132 inmates having tested positive for COVID-19, the county prison remains in what Tate calls a “modified lockdown,” which restricts inmate movement within the facility as a way to keep the coronavirus from spreading. As new COVID-19 test results come back for the inmates who previously tested negative, the prison staff will evaluate the situation and decide if ...

Northampton County’s number of inmates with COVID-19 triples in 2 weeks Updated Dec 15, 2020; Northampton County Prison officials on Tuesday reported the cumulative number of inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19 has tripled in two weeks. The total number of inmates testing positive since March reached 86 as of Tuesday, up 207% from 28 on Dec. 1. The number of inmates quarantining as of Tuesday was 31, or 5.8% of the total prison population of 537 inmates, the Northampton County Department of Corrections reported. On the staff side, a cumulative 35 prison employees have tested posi...

COVID concerns: All York County buildings closed to public starting today York Dispatch York County will close all county buildings to the public beginning Dec. 21, and continuing through Jan. 8, in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 around the holidays, county officials announced Wednesday. Offices will reopen to the public Jan. 11, officials said. York County Commissioner Julie Wheeler said the closures are an anticipatory measure based on the spike in positive cases after the Thanksgiving holiday, which is why they won't go into effect immediately. "We thought that in an abunda...