Workers from Sarver farms, right, wear protective masks, beside the onions, potatoes and vegetables they are selling to patrons driving by in their cars at the Greensburg Farmers' Market opening day, Saturday, April 25, 2020, in Greensburg, Pa. Nearly a dozen vendors sold from tents in the parking lot of the Lynch Field Park for a farmers market set up for the patrons to stay in their cars and drive from one vendor to the next to follow safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Before arriving at WHYY in 2010, Aaron was a freelance writer for a collection of community newspapers and alternative weeklies.
He still can't get over the fact that he can walk to so many sights and sounds from his home base in South Philly.
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Workers from Sarver farms, right, wear protective masks, beside the onions, potatoes and vegetables they are selling to patrons driving by in their cars at the Greensburg Farmers' Market opening day, Saturday, April 25, 2020, in Greensburg, Pa. Nearly a dozen vendors sold from tents in the parking lot of the Lynch Field Park for a farmers market set up for the patrons to stay in their cars and drive from one vendor to the next to follow safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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To date, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has reported 41,395 total COVID-19 cases (including confirmed and probable cases). There are 105,523 cases in New Jersey and 3,576 cases in Delaware. Philadelphia has 12,329 cases.
Pennsylvania’s death toll stands at 1,731, New Jersey’s is at 5,863, and Delaware’s is at 112. Philadelphia’s death toll is 466.
Feds tell Pa.: Don’t plan on more masks, gloves from national stockpile
The federal government has told Pennsylvania it should not plan on receiving more surgical masks, hospital gowns, and gloves from the national stockpile, which is “very, very low,” state Health Secretary Rachel Levine said Saturday.
“We are looking with the governor’s office really everywhere in the United States, even other places globally to try to find access to those resources,” Levine said during a virtual news conference. “We’re also going to rely on our excellent hospitals and health systems and the hospital association through their mutual aid agreement.”
More testing materials are also still needed, she said, including swabs and extraction and testing chemicals.
“It all has been a challenge in terms of that resource supply,” said Levine. “Overall I think we’re doing somewhat better in terms of that.”
“I do not expect at this time that any shortages will impact our ability to do testing in the regions that we identified that will go from red to yellow,” added Levine, referring to Pennsylvania’s plan to start easing shutdown orders in parts of the state starting May 8.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan would first relax restrictions in counties in north-central and northwest Pennsylvania.
The news came as the state eclipsed 40,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and reported 1,537 confirmed deaths.
