Governor Roy Cooper Issues a Mandatory Stay-at-Home Order for North Carolina
Governor Roy Cooper issued a mandatory statewide Stay at Home order beginning Monday at 5pm. The order may go into but Cooper recommended anyone who is able begin starting now. The order will last 30 days.
It states that there should be no gatheringsof more than 10 people and that those people must stay 6 feet away from each other (social distancing). Essential services such as may continue, but should use extreme social distancing measures.
Cooper states that North Carolina has widespread transmission and community spread. According to science the best tool we have to combat the spread is staying apart.
Cooper thanked people who are already doing the right thing and says that he knows it will be difficult on the economy but unemployment benefits will go out next week to those who have filed due to coronvirus.
He stated “we have to act now in the safest started way while have the chance to save lives” and described the situation as life or death.
.@NC_Governor: To continue our aggressive battle to slow the spread of #COVID19, today I have signed a Stay At Home order for the entire state of North Carolina. Enforcement begins at 5p.m. Monday. It is what we have to do to save lives. It has the force of law.
— NCDHHS (@ncdhhs) March 27, 2020
.@NC_Governor: This order directs you to stay home unless you need to leave for essentials, such as your job, food, medicine, outdoor exercise, or to help others.
— NCDHHS (@ncdhhs) March 27, 2020
Text COVIDNC to 898211 to get updates on coronavirus in North Carolina.
Find more info and read the entire order at the NCDHHS
