3 U.S. States Have Now Ordered 72 Million People to Stay Home
Less than one day after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a stay-at-home requirement for California's nearly 40 million residents, New York and Illinois have placed similar orders on their residents. That puts more than 72 million Americans in those three states under lockdown requirements aimed at arresting the spread of COVID-19, the deadly illness caused by coronavirus.
The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago options and futures exchanges had already announced plans to suspend floor trading and switch to electronic trading during this crisis.
At last count, more than 265,000 cases have been reported around the world, with more than 100,000 of those over the past week. In the U.S., the number of cases passed 16,000 today, a 10-fold increase from less than 2,000 one week ago, as testing ramps up across the nation.
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