State officials are leaving it up to local municipalities to set their own restrictions to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Joe Biden's win, which came with the help of Scranton, is bringing new energy to the Electric City.
Officials in Montgomery County, the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania, have ordered schools to close for two weeks starting on Nov. 23.
“We are better prepared than we were in the spring,“ Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said.
“It is incumbent on everyone to continue to support the mission that you’ve given us. The only way to do that is to have our soldiers continue to be able to be in nursing homes. We can only do that with the appropriate funding.”
The state saw more than 4,000 new cases for the second time in four days.
Health Secretary says news of vaccine is positive, but Pennsylvanians have to work together.
The last Democrat to represent the state senate district was William M. Randall, who served from 1865 to 1873. Voters in the district have elected Republicans in every election since then.
Joe Biden won the Philadelphia suburbs and several small cities across Pennsylvania by larger margins than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, and lost other small cities by smaller margins.
The former Vice President will be the 46th president of the United States.
