FOX 29's Lauren Johnson has the latest details in Center City. PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania on Wednesday reached 26,490 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
The death toll climbed to 647. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS The state health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, said that social distancing measures have succeeded in slowing the rate of transmission, but “now is not the time to become complacent.” Gov.
Tom Wolf has closed schools and nonessential businesses indefinitely and ordered people to stay home. Officials say most of the patients hospitalized are over the age of 65, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients in that age range.