{"id":34794,"date":"2020-05-28T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=34794"},"modified":"2020-05-28T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:43:21","slug":"covid-19-update-may-28-outdoor-dine-in-coming-back-to-chesco-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=34794","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Update, May 28: Outdoor dine-in coming back to Chesco next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>By Mike McGann<\/strong>, <em>Editor The Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikemcgannpa\">@mikemcgannpa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CC2Yellow-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11886\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CC2Yellow-1-350x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>If all goes as planned, by the end of next week, folks in Chester County may be able to enjoy a sit down meal \u2014 outdoors \u2014 and argue about the Eagles\u2019 prospects for the coming season, after a series of adjustments in rules for areas in Yellow and Green status counties, announced Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Tom Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wolf\u2019s orders will allow some restaurants to resume serving guests in outdoor seating and will allow the Philadelphia Eagles to reopen its training facilities and hold practices and games without fans \u2014 allowing the team to hold a June minicamp at its facility in preparation for the upcoming season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under Wolf\u2019s clarified orders, counties about to come under Green status will get access to indoor dining with limited seating, haircuts, gyms and gatherings of up to 250 people. Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Montour, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Venango, and Warren all go to Green status, Friday. Chester County leaders expressed hope that the county would move to Green status by the end of June.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On June 5, when Chester County moves to Yellow Status, restaurants and retail food service businesses located will be permitted add dine-in service in outdoor seating areas so long as they strictly adhere to the requirements of the guidance, including maximum occupancy limits:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 Indoor areas, including bar areas, of restaurants and retail food service businesses must be closed to customers except for through-traffic. Non-bar seating in outdoor areas (i.e., tables or counter seats that do not line up to a bar or food service area) may be used for customer seating.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Customers being served must be seated at a table<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Still not permitted: dining indoors; self-service food options such as buffets or self-service drink stations; condiments on tables; reusable menus; or refilling food or beverage container or allowing implements brought in by customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the state continues to see steady declines in new cases, with new cases falling to 625, for a total of 70,042. 108 new deaths were reported, bringing the state death toll to 5,373.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As part of the reopening process, the state is expanding testing and announced Thursday that it sent additional testing supplies to hospitals this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe know we need to ramp up testing capabilities as a means to further mitigate COVID-19,\u201d Gov. Wolf said. \u201cThese supplies are critical to that goal. We will continue to distribute these supplies as quickly and efficiently as they become available.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also, as counties move into the Yellow status, 60 more of the state\u2019s liquor stores will reopen on a limited basis, beyond what had previously been curbside pick up only. it is expected that similarly, on June 5, a number of stores in Chester County will reopen under the same restrictions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 Stores will limit the number of customers in a store at any time, allowing no more than 25 people (employees and customers) in any location and further restricting numbers of customers in smaller stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 The first hour each store is open each day will be reserved for customers at high risk for COVID-19, including those 65 years of age and older. Voluntary compliance from all customers is encouraged in the interest of protecting the health and safety of our most vulnerable community members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 Customers and employees will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing, guided by signage throughout the stores.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 Signage will also direct customers to follow one-way patterns to avoid cross-traffic and encourage them to refrain from touching products unless they intend to buy them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 Store employees will perform enhanced and frequent cleaning and disinfecting, and store hours will be modified to ensure appropriate time for cleaning and restocking.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">All sales are final, and no returns will be accepted until further notice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to opening to the public, each location was professionally sanitized, and Plexiglas was installed at registers to provide a physical barrier between employees and customers at checkout. All Fine Wine &amp; Good Spirits employees are being provided masks, gloves, and frequent opportunities to wash hands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike McGann, Editor The Times @mikemcgannpa If all goes as planned, by the end of next week, folks in Chester County may be able to enjoy a sit down meal \u2014 outdoors \u2014 and argue about the Eagles\u2019 prospects for the coming season, after a series of adjustments in rules for areas in Yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,11909,6518,5859,4787,10442,12154],"class_list":["post-34794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-gov-tom-wolf","tag-outdoor-dining","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-yellow-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34795,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions\/34795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}