Contra Costa County Health Services released a graphic specifying which businesses will be open and closed during a shelter-in-placer order in six Bay Area counties.

The basics of a "shelter-in-place" order during the coronavirus outbreak are fairly clear: Stay at home. But as cities, states and the federal government take increasingly aggressive moves to stop ...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s shelter in place order will expire throughout the Peach State at 11:59 p.m. this evening, but certain groups will have to continue following those protocols.

A shelter in place order can also help prevent the medical system from getting overwhelmed, he says. “People still need hospitals for other things, like strokes and accidents,” Dr. Watkins says.