Throughout the region, all people must stay at home unless they are getting food, medical attention, or help from law enforcement, among other essentials.
Residents may go outside to take care of loved ones and animals, travel to child care, exercise, travel to work, and volunteer with charitable groups. Residents can also leave home due to a reasonable fear of health or safety.
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Following moves by the governors of Maryland and Virginia, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Monday afternoon, also issued a “stay at home” order, directing residents to stay in their homes except for getting food and other essential household goods, obtaining medical care, traveling to perform “essential” work and a few other exceptions, including outside recreation.
The stay-at-home orders go in effect in D.C. on Wednesday, April 1 at 12:01 a.m.; Maryland on Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m.; and in Virginia, the order is effective immediately.
Today, the House of Representatives approved the historic $2 trillion stimulus package that passed the Senate earlier this week. Maryland's 4th District Congressman Anthony Brown presided over the House as the House passed the legislation.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced he is leading a bipartisan coalition with the National Association of Attorneys General and 37 Attorneys General to implore the Senate, House, and President of the United States to treat the District of Columbia as a state for purposes of receiving state level allocation of funding from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund. The Coronavirus relief package, passed by the Senate on March 26, allocates at least $1.25 billion in direct relief payments to each state, but only $500 million to the District because it groups the District together with U.S. territories.
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