PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — New coronavirus cases hit record numbers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Saturday, and now governors from six northeastern states, including the Keystone and Garden states, are meeting to discuss and compare their mitigation efforts.
This comes as Pennsylvania and New Jersey hit their highest single-day case counts Saturday, with Pennsylvania reporting 5,551 new cases, while the Garden State announced 4,395 new cases.
The rise in cases is pushing Philadelphia leaders to announce new restrictions Monday.
City business owners are on edge, waiting to know what exactly those new restrictions will be, while officials say it's necessary to help stop the spread.
On Saturday, Revolution Fitness Factory held classes as usual, but co-owner Ari Dueñas told NBC 10 they fear how long that will last.
"We're not these big gyms where everyone is on top of each other. We're not these big corporations that have money to back us up if this happens," Dueñas said. "It's me and another owner that put all of our money into this and it's gone if we close down."
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New York and New Jersey have already implemented some new restrictions.
Gordon Denlinger, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, told NBC 10 - collaboration is good, but every state is different…
"We really need our public officials to consider the economics as well as the health issues," he said. "We would like a more narrowed, targeted approach to this and we think a move toward multi-state or multi-regional is frankly a move in the wrong direction."
Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said due to the rise in cases, people should get into the mindset as if it's March or April again.