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Stay-at-home order facts for kids

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A stay-at-home order (North America) or a movement control order (Southeast Asia) is an order from a government to lower/end movements of a population as a mass quarantine move for stopping an epidemic, or pandemic. This is done by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or to work in essential businesses.

In many cases, outdoor activities are allowed. Nonessential businesses are either closed or made to working from home.

In some regions, it has added a curfew or called a shelter-in-place order, but it is not to be confused with a shelter in place situation.

Similar measures have been used around the world, but the term lockdown is used instead.

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  • Loyalsock Volunteer Fire Co COVID-19 warning sign

    Many jurisdictions in the United States have referred to their stay-at-home orders by the slogan "Stay home, stay safe."

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    A sign in Rendsburg, Germany indicates that the playground is closed.

  • 2020-04-19 14 42 26 Variable message sign reading "Save Lives Stay Home Essential Travel Only" along southbound Interstate 95 just south of Exit 29 in Beltsville, Prince George's County, Maryland

    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

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