The Great Allentown Fair will be back for 2021. After being canceled for 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions, the Lehigh County Agricultural Society decided unanimously to have this year’s event starting Wednesday, Sept. 1 and running through Labor Day Monday, Sept. 6.

Grants worth more than $50 million have been distributed by the Pennsylvania COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP,) and millions have gone to hotels, restaurants and bars in the Greater Lehigh Valley.

Over 50% of the Pennsylvania population received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   

As of May 6, 97% of St. Luke’s University Health Network physicians were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Bethlehem-based health network.

Lehigh Valley Health Network will hold a mass vaccination drive-through on Wednesday, May 12 at Allentown’s Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that fully vaccinated adults 65 years and older were 94% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people of the same age who were not vaccinated.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is now accepting walk-ins at its COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic–Northampton Crossing at 3768 Easton Nazareth Highway in Lower Nazareth Township. The walk-in clinic is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Those 18 and older can walk in without an appointment to receive the first dose of the Moderna ...

“There’s definitely been a lot of people asking when we’re bringing breakfast back,” said Cindy Ebert, manager of the Brass Rail restaurant in Allentown. “The answer is we can’t even staff lunch and dinner.”

Lehigh Valley Health Network will hold its next COVID-19 mass vaccination drive-through event in Northampton County at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem Township on Thursday, April 29.

With more and more people getting vaccinated, companies are starting to think about how they can begin in-person meetings again and how they can do it safely.