SC issues coronavirus stay-at-home order, limits number of shoppers in stores

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https://www.postandcourier.com/health/covid19/sc-issues-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order-limits-number-of-shoppers-in-stores/article_144481a6-7834-11ea-b747-9324c93bd43b.html

COLUMBIA — South Carolina issued a stay-at-home order on Monday, the last state east of the Mississippi River to tell residents they must limit their travel during the coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Henry McMaster also issued an order restricting the number of shoppers in stores. South Carolina officials unveiled a plan to have the National Guard set up auxiliary medical units outside hospitals and reopen closed rural hospitals to help with expected surge in COVID-19 patients.

The number of stricken South Carolinians is expected to quadruple to more than 8,000 over the next month, according to forecasts by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. About 3,500 will need hospitalization, S.C. Adjutant General Van McCarty said.

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