{"id":27528,"date":"2020-06-26T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:53:11","slug":"chesco-goes-green-most-businesses-allowed-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=27528","title":{"rendered":"Chesco goes Green; most businesses allowed to reopen"},"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:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ChescoGreen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12055\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ChescoGreen-350x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After more than three months of COVID-19 shutdown, Chester County is largely opening up today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While virtually no businesses will reopen at full capacity, everything beyond those that require large public gatherings (concerts, sporting events, etc) are allowed to resume operation as of today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Still, there are limits \u2014 COVID-19 is raging through many southern states such as Texas, Florida and Arizona which opened much more aggressively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Telework remains recommended. Business that were operating at 50% occupancy in the Yellow Phase, may increase to 75%. Restaurants and bars may allow indoor seating at 50% capacity. Gatherings of more than 250 are prohibited, still (an increase from 25). Personal care shops \u2014 hair care and so on \u2014 may reopen, but only at 50% and by appointment only. Indoor recreation \u2014 gyms \u2014 may reopen at 50% capacity. Casinos, theaters, and shopping malls may reopen at 50% capacity.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Caution remains in order, health officials stressed: wearing masks, washing hands frequently and observing social distancing (staying six feet away) are the best way to fight COVID-19 and keep the economy open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wolf tweeted Friday a reminder of the need to wear masks \u2014 and that battling COVID-19 will reopen the economy quicker. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs pointed out by\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Surgeon_General\"><span class=\"s3\">@Surgeon_General<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, face masks aren&#8217;t meant to infringe on your freedom,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFace masks mean less asymptomatic viral spread\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which means more places open (and sooner). If\u00a0more people wear face masks when out in public, we\u2019ll all have more freedom to go out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa After more than three months of COVID-19 shutdown, Chester County is largely opening up today. While virtually no businesses will reopen at full capacity, everything beyond those that require large public gatherings (concerts, sporting events, etc) are allowed to resume operation as of today. Still, there are limits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,9585,3912,3616,9906],"class_list":["post-27528","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-green-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}