93-3-WMR Audio on Demand presents the Preston and Steve show podcast. And now, Preston and Steve's

news update with Kathy Romano. Today is Friday is June 19th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning in the

news this morning. Philadelphia officials announced plans for when the city moves to the green phase as well as listed activities that may resume before then. They have unveiled the city

strategy to move to the green phase of Governor Tom Wolfe's reopening plan called reopening

with care. I'm excited to see the progress Philadelphia has made against this epidemic,

but we will be cautious on how we reopen. Philadelphia is uniquely at risk as the most densely populated county in the state with the

highest number of cases and deaths from COVID.

We don't want to see a second wave of the epidemic.

We will be more careful and we will be more restrictive than the Commonwealth in what

activities are allowed and how they can operate.

Health Commissioner.

COVID-19.

Dr. Thomas Farley said during a Thursday afternoon press conference, if the city continues

to see the declining cases, Farley said some activities may be permitted to resume in the

yellow phase beginning on Friday, June 26.

The activities include residential swimming pools and private swim

clubs, zoos outside only, personal services such as salons, barbers, and spas, and small indoor

social and religious gatherings up to 25 people. And Kathy, aren't they regulating the kind of cuts

you can get when you go to the barbershop? Bob's only. Some are going to be right. Those are

the safest, right? Yes. So when are salons opening up? So, okay. Or is that, I'm sorry. I was hitting the buttons. I was playing the song. You can really do so much. So this is just the plan that they're saying. Yeah. So they haven't said, but they're saying that some of this stuff can reopen before green. So if this coming week next week looks as good as this week did, then they're going to allow the swimming pools and the salons to open earlier before we get to the green face. So off yellow. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a what would you call that? Between a yellow and green? What would be between yellow and green? I don't know. I know it's red and aquamarine. Yeah. Topaz. So if we continue to see the numbers going in the right direction, then we can, they can loosen things up even more. Right. Next Friday, yeah. So the Philadelphia Zoo says it would be making an announcement on plans to reopen soon, but already they know that they will require guests to reserve or purchase tickets in advance.

And only certain animals you can look at.

You can see.

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