As six Bay Area counties ask residents to shelter in place to prevent spreading COVID-19, only essential businesses are staying open while all other businesses have been ordered to close. Below is ...

Shelter-In-Place Rules. In the affected California counties, all non-essential travel was banned and people are being told to work from home or stop working unless they provide an "essential ...

The basics of a “shelter-in-place” order during the coronavirus pandemic are fairly clear: Stay at home. That order, though, has plenty of exemptions for “essential” activities. And it is ...

Shelter-in-place explained: What can you do during it and how is it different to stay at home order? With greater measures coming into force, there is confusion surrounding the term.

When shelter-in-place orders went into effect in California, human activity ground to a halt. ... Graphic by Aclima. Shipping accounts for air quality problems in some parts of the Bay Area — ...

A shelter-in-place order sounds alarming, but it’s not a full quarantine. It is still mandatory, though; San Francisco has declared it a misdemeanor to not follow the order.

Many states in the U.S. have issued shelter in place or stay at home orders. A lockdown is a much stricter order, which could involve not being able to leave a certain area or having a curfew.

Seven California counties have enacted shelter in place orders to help stem the spread of COVID-19 — and now New York City might do the same.

The purpose of a shelter in place is to direct the Bates community to safer locations to avoid the hazard, and to keep campus arteries clear for emergency use. When it is necessary to shelter in place ...