Stay-at-home order
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A stay-at-home order, safer-at-home order, movement control order – also referred to by loose use of the terms quarantine, isolation, or lockdown – is an order from a government authority that restric
Many jurisdictions in the United States have referred to their stay-at-home orders by the slogan "Stay home, stay safe."
A sign in Rendsburg, Germany indicates that the playground is closed.
Variable-message sign along Interstate 95 in Prince George's County, Maryland telling people to stay home and only travel for essential purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 lockdown in China
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On 23 January 2020, the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei in an effort to quarantine the center of an outbreak of COVID-19; t
Stay-at-home order
…wrong message for people to incorrectly think that it includes door-to-door searching for infected people to be forced into quarantines similar to the Hubei lockdown. The term lockdown was used by the media and the World Health Organization (WHO) to describe the action taken in January 2020 by the government of China…
Policemen wearing masks patrolling Wuhan Tianhe Airport during Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
A nurse measuring the body temperature for outpatients in Hubei TCM Hospital
Citizens of Wuhan lining up outside of a drug store to buy masks during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Staff monitoring passengers' body temperature in Wuhan railway station during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak