Updated as of March 27, 2020 at 4:30 pm ET.
More than half of all Americans have been ordered to stay at home. This map shows which cities and states are under lockdown
- Twenty-three states have issued stay-at-home orders, encouraging isolation measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
- Some metro areas in states without such orders — including Anchorage, Alaska; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Houston and Dallas, Texas — are also under stay-at-home orders.
- In total, that brings about half of America’s population under some form of lockdown.
As of Friday, 23 US states have issued stay-at-home orders, asking residents to shelter in place and go out only for essential services like buying food and medicine. Many cities and counties in states that don’t have these policies have issued similar orders, and 10 other states and territories have ordered nonessential businesses to close: Guam, Puerto Rico, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington, DC.
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Iowa and Missouri are the best chances for escape.
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