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Pennsylvania&rsquo;s schools will remain closed indefinitely, <a href="https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-and-sec-of-health-expand-stay-at-home-order-to-carbon-cumberland-dauphin-and-schuylkill-counties-extend-school-closures-indefinitely/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday afternoon</a> amid news that more counties have been placed under stay-at-home orders as the coronavirus continues to spread.
				In our region, Carbon and Schuylkill now are under those orders, as well as Dauphin and Cumberland counties in the midstate. Twenty-six counties are under stay-at-home orders, including Luzerne and Lackawanna, and those orders have been extended through April 30.
				Non-essential business closures remain in effect.
				The announcements also come at a time when Luzerne County has seen a spike in cases &mdash; there were 150 confirmed COVID-19 cases here as of Monday, <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/778240/luzerne-county-covid-19-cases-at-150-3-deaths-statewide-total-at-4087" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">up 65 from Sunday</a>. Luzerne County also has <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/778257/luzerne-countys-third-virus-death-was-man-75" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recorded its third death</a>.

Wolf closes all Pa. schools indefinitely