Pennsylvania Governor Orders Non-Life-Sustaining Businesses to Close

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is ordering all non-life-sustaining businesses in the commonwealth to close their physical locations to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

Special exemptions are being granted to businesses that are supplying or servicing health care providers.  Some of those businesses include building supply stores, medical offices but not elective procedures, grocery stores and pharmacies.

Enforcement actions against businesses that do not close physical locations in Pennsylvania will begin at 12:01 a.m. March 21.

The listing of businesses that are allowed to remain open and those ordered closed can be found at www.pa.gov.

Meanwhile, Wolf says low-interest loans are being made available for small businesses and eligible non-profits in all 67 counties through the U.S. Small Business Administration.