The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is partnering with the Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC), a nonprofit organization, to solicit proposals from qualified home health agencies to help provide the support and/or services needed to ensure successful isolation and quarantine for people with or exposed to COVID-19.

Read the RFP.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is scheduled to open applications on Monday, May 3, 2021 at noon for the new Restaurant Revitalization Fund. The online application will remain open to any eligible establishment until all funds are exhausted. More information, including how businesses can create a registration account for the new Fund is available at sba.gov/restaurants.

Established under the American Rescue Plan, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund provides a total of $28.6 billion in direct relief funds to restaurants and other hard-hit food establishments that have experienced economic distress and significant operational losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This program will provide restaurants with funding equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location. Funds must be used for allowable expenses by March 11, 2023.

In response to the number of new COVID-19 cases beginning to fall in Philadelphian and the region, the Health Department announced a series of changes to the City’s Safer-at-Home restrictions.

Beginning Friday, May 7, 2021, the following changes will go into effect:

• For indoor dining
  • Capacity will be increased from 25%, or 50% if restaurants meet enhanced ventilation standards, to 50%, or 75% if restaurants meet enhanced ventilation standards.
  • Maximum table size will be increased from four to six, and there is no longer a requirement that everyone at the table be from the same household.
• For outdoor dining
  • Maximum table size will be increased to 10, which is the state limit.
• For indoor catered events
  • Important to remember that events like indoor weddings are the highest risk.
  • For the first time in more than a year, the City will allow indoor catered social events up to 25% occupancy of space with a cap of 75 persons total.
    • If case rates continue to fall, the City may increase that cap to 150 beginning  May 21.
• Other gatherings and events
  • Indoor gatherings and events will be able to increase their maximum capacity to 25% of normal capacity and outdoor gatherings and events will be able to increase maximum capacity to 50%.

In all of these situations, the Health Commissioner made a strong recommendation that anyone participating in these higher-risk and higher-density events should be vaccinated first.

It has never been easier to get vaccinated and protect yourself and your family from COVID-19. And it’s easier than ever to get to the vaccine clinics! Find out more.