Edwin Mora 24 Mar 2020
Four more states in the U.S. issued stay-at-home orders this week for non-essential workers in a bid to combat the accelerating spread of the deadly and highly contagious novel coronavirus, bringing the total number to 17, where nearly half of the American population resides.
On Monday, Michigan, Indiana, Oregon, and West Virginia became the latest states to implement lockdown measures, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Thirteen other states have reportedly imposed similar restrictions to stem the spread of the coronavirus or COVID-19 — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Among those states are the top four hardest-hit by the virus — New York (25,665 cases; 210 deaths), New Jersey (2,844 cases; 27 deaths), California (2,240 cases; 41 deaths), and Washington (2,101 cases; 109 deaths), a New York Times tally showed.
Florida (1,401 cases; 17 deaths), which is in the last place among the top five states with the highest number of coronavirus cases, has not imposed any “stay at home†measures.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/24/coronavirus-outbreak-156-million-people-in-17-u-s-states-in-lockdown/
