The statewide universal mask mandate lifted Monday in Pennsylvania.
Businesses can still require face coverings, Gov. Tom Wolf said, but the public health order that required it expired this week after more than 16 months.
“Thank you to each and every Pennsylvanian who did their part to get us here,” Wolf tweeted Monday.
The mask policy was the last of the COVID-19 mandates left standing when lawmakers terminated the state’s emergency declaration earlier this month. In total, more than 1.2 million residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the first cases were identified on March 6, 2020, and more than 27,000 have died from the virus, according to state data.
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