October 5, 2020: COVID-19 Update from the Centre Region Emergency Management Program

Centre Region Specific News:

Penn State: Penn State announced its plans for Spring 2021. The University plans to start classes a week later (January 18th), cancelled spring break, and will continue hybrid delivery methods. You can read more here: https://news.psu.edu/story/634102/2020/10/04/administration/spring-2021-plans-announced-giving-students-faculty-and-staff

CATA: CATA is temporarily suspending its express service due to low ridership, effective October 12th. You can read more here: https://catabus.com/service-changes/

State College Borough: The Borough provided an update on the enforcement of its gathering and masking ordinance. You can read more here: http://www.statecollegepa.us/CivicSend/ViewMessage/Message/124609

Centre County: The testing site at the Nittany Mall has been extended for an additional week. The testing location will be open this week, Tuesday through Saturday, from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

News from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

The Department of Health rolled out a new mobile app that helps with contact tracing and with symptom tracking. You can read more here: https://www.pa.gov/covid/covid-alert-pa/

As of October 4th, there are 158,001 cases in PA. 1,931,635 people have tested negative for COVID-19.

As of October 4th, there are 2,954 cases in Centre County. 28,233 people have tested negative for COVID-19.

Resources for residents:

Residents can get more information on our special COVID-19 website. The site is updated daily by State College Borough. You can find that site here: https://www.statecollegepa.us/coronavirus

Residents can also get information on the Centre Region Ready Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/centreregionready/

State College Borough is maintaining a dashboard by zip code. The dashboard can be found here: https://coronavirus-response-state-college-borough-statecollegepa.hub.arcgis.com/

For questions or more information, please contact Centre Region Public Information Officer Amy Farkas by email at manager@harristownship.org or by phone at 466-6228.