All 67 counties in Pennsylvania are now under stay-at-home orders through the end of April due to the coronavirus.

Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he would extend the order Wednesday morning, shortly before state officials announced there are now more than 5,800 cases and 74 deaths in the state related to COVID-19.

“We do keep looking at different models to see where we stand, and all of them say exactly the same thing - how fast this disease takes off depends solely on how well we do staying home,” Wolf said.

As of Wednesday, 962 new cases were reported, as well as an additional 11 deaths.

Carbon County now has 23 cases and one death. Schuylkill County has 47 cases and zero deaths.

Monroe County has 278 cases, eight deaths; Lehigh County has 374 cases, five deaths; and Northampton County has 312 cases, five deaths.

The counties added to the stay-at-home order on Wednesday are largely rural. Wolf said they make up less than 20 percent of the state’s population.

Wolf said his order is aimed at preventing health care facilities from becoming overwhelmed with patients, and ensuring that everyone who becomes sick can receive the treatment they need.

He said the U.S. Surgeon General has recommended people nationwide to stay at home, and surrounding states have taken similar steps.

Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said the stay-at-home order, as well as closures of schools and non-life-sustaining businesses, is needed to protect health care workers and first responders on the front lines from getting sick.

“We can’t afford for them to get sick, and we certainly can’t afford for them to spread the virus to the people they’re caring for,” she said.

The state’s health care system continues to absorb the current number of patients who have serious cases of COVID-19. As of Tuesday, about 620 people have been hospitalized at different times with the virus, roughly 10 percent of all cases.

In Pennsylvania, 286 health care workers have come down with COVID-19.

Both Wolf and Levine acknowledged the toll that the order will take on residents.

Wolf encouraged residents to not panic shop or hoard items. He said every part of Pennsylvania’s food supply chain remains active - including farmers, truck drivers and food pantry volunteers.

“Buying more than you need for a week or two at the grocery store adds unnecessary stress to the food supply chain - it limits available products for others including charitable organizations,” he said.

While those industries remain active, Pennsylvania has had the highest number of unemployment claims of any state since Wolf shut down non-life-sustaining businesses.

Wolf said the unemployment compensation system is currently overwhelmed, but they are doing everything possible to catch up with the number of applications.

In welcome news for many residents over 21, Wolf announced that Pennsylvania residents will once again be able to purchase alcohol online from Pennsylvania Wine and Spirits, however retail stores will remain closed.

Wolf said that residents have done a good job cooperating.

“We need to decide to stay home and the more we do that, the better we enforce this ourselves, the better position Pennsylvania is going to be in as far as staying safe,” he said.