Posted on 11/25/2020 6:06:04 PM PST by lightman
Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine on Wednesday updated the travel order issued on Nov. 17, to clarify testing and quarantine requirements for people entering the commonwealth or returning home.
“This update keeps in place the need for people visiting and returning to Pennsylvania to have a negative test or quarantine for 14 days upon arrival,” Levine said in a press release. “We still recommend that Pennsylvanians do not travel, and the stay-at-home advisory I issued earlier this week remains in effect. I know that it is hard not to travel during this holiday season, but it is the right thing to do to protect one another from this devastating virus.”
The amended order requires travelers over the age of 11 entering Pennsylvania from locations outside the commonwealth, as well as Pennsylvanians returning home, to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test or place themselves in travel quarantine for 14 days upon entering, according to the release. If they receive a negative test result during the travel quarantine period, they can leave travel quarantine, the release said, adding:
The order also clarifies that in addition to the exemptions in the previous order, people returning to the commonwealth after leaving the state for less than 24 hours and individuals complying with a court order, including child custody, are exempt from the testing and quarantine requirements.
In addition, the order clarifies the difference between a travel quarantine and isolation and quarantine when someone tests positive for COVID-19 or is exposed to a positive case. Travel quarantine means that people quarantining after travel who have not been identified as a close contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19 are permitted to end quarantine once they receive a negative test result.
Individuals are permitted to enter the commonwealth if they are awaiting a test result but must travel quarantine until a negative test result is received, even if they are asymptomatic.
The Wolf administration stresses the role Pennsylvanians play in helping to reduce the spread of COVID-19:
Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available.
Cover any coughs or sneezes with your elbow, not your hands.
Clean surfaces frequently.
Stay home to avoid spreading COVID-19, especially if you are unwell.
If you must go out, you are required to wear a mask when in a business or where it is difficult to maintain proper social distancing.
Download the COVID Alert PA app and make your phone part of the fight. The free app can be found in the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store by searching for “covid alert pa”.
Thousands of people live in Pennsylvania and commute to work in Maryland. What is Pennsylvania going to do about all of them?
What are they going to do at airports, have everyone who gets off the plane to stand in line and show papers?
And shouts “don’t misgender me!” at reporters asking questions.
The abuse of the amber alert system by these ignoramuses to try to scare people mid inexcusable
This NOT-A-DICK has BiXiden chomping at the bit to make it Surgeon General.
Apparently from it’s prowess as a surgeon.
Folks, you really just can’t make this stuff up.
The Babylon Bee is speechless.
its...
It’s no wonder the PA Amish are registering to vote en masse.
The entire COVID scare is being exploited by the Rats to take attention away from the Rat election heist.
They have been using it for 10 months and will continue to parlay it to the Great Reset scam.
A perfect way to fully control the masses of the world (while exempting themselves of course).
There's a rumor that Levine cut his penis and testicles off himself because he was not mentally stable enough to go thru gender transformation. But you gotta think anyone wanting to do that is not mentally stable.
Levine has went full-Nazi on masks last week with the "wear one in your home when there are people present who don't live with you" dictate.
Quickly copycatted by a couple of other states but Levine has the bragging rights...clearly an attempt to show Sloe Joe how to go one better.
Pennsylvania to the wanna-be tyrant: You first.
What I want to know, are they going to arrest all of the yahoo’s who travel from Upstate NY to PA to buy cigs!
Sometimes twice or three times a day...
Two words. TOM WOLF.
HE will always have a Y chromosome. Can't be changed. God decides your sex at the moment of conception. That can never be changed.
Maybe four or five... just ‘cause ya CAN...
I have never seen it with a mask on...
Answer: the state of Maryland forbids its residents from leaving the State without explicit orders from your governor. If somehow you qualify to leave the state, and if Pennsylvania decides to admit you, then you must quarantine for 14 days on entry before checking your postbox. Upon return to Maryland, provided that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grants you leave to exit and the state of Maryland admits you, you must quarantine for 14 days before entering your residence.
Yeah, she’s like 60 now and is still smokin’ hot.
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