Stay-at-home order for Allegheny County
By Megan Guza
Trib Total Media
Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday ordered residents in Allegheny and five other Pennsylvania counties to stay at home unless “someone’s life depends on your leaving.”
The order, which also affects Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Monroe and Montgomery counties, is an effort to staunch the spread of the coronavirus in the state’s hardest-hit areas. The virus has already sickened hundreds and left six dead statewide.
The order went into effect at 8 p.m. Monday, though it does not affect grocery stores, pharmacies and other businesses previously deemed life-sustaining.
Wolf said the order means “you must stay in your homes unless not leaving your home endangers a life.”
He acknowledged that the stay-at-home order is extreme.
“I know this is going to be difficult — even more than it is already,” he said in a virtual news conference.
Wolf’s office offered a list of activities and reasons for which those covered by the order can leave their homes, including walking, running or hiking, caring for children, the elderly or other dependents and retrieving materials to work from home.
It is a broader definition than what the governor initially said in the news conference.
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