Governments world-wide are increasingly imposing mandatory restrictions on residents to force people to keep their distance from each other, stepping up efforts to slow the global spread of the coronavirus as cases surged past 350,000. U.S. governors in Massachusetts, Louisiana, Ohio and Delaware ordered residents to stay at home—joining some of the worst-hit U.S. states like New York and California, which imposed similar measures in recent days. The far-reaching measures vary in size and scope, though must have shut non-essential...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 23, 2020 09:09 UTC