My Girls Deli & Catering owner Chad Reichold in Somerset, Pa. is promoting a free square of toilet paper with any purchase, trying to poke fun at the run on toilet paper during the coronavirus on Thursday, March 19, 2020. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)
March 19, 2020
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March 19, 2020 10:41 p.m.
Governor orders 1000s of businesses to shut down over virus
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf issued a sweeping shutdown order to tens of thousands of “non-life-sustaining” businesses Thursday, decreeing they must close their physical locations by 8 p.m. to slow the spread of the coronavirus or face enforcement by state police and other government agencies.