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A stay-at-home order, safer-at-home order, movement control order – also referred to by loose use of the terms quarantine, isolation, or lockdown – is an order from a government authority that restricts movements of a population as a mass quarantine strategy for suppressing or mitigating an epidemic or pandemic by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or for work in ...
Lockdown drills are means of practicing preparedness in a business in the event of an intruder or criminal act. Generally an announcement is given that the building is going on an immediate lockdown. At that point, all occupants present at the time of the drill go to a room and lock all doors and windows tight.
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The lockdown in the Philippines started on 14 March 2020 and is one of the longest and strictest lockdowns with varying levels of community quarantine being imposed on all major islands and cities. [13] [14] Similarly the lockdown in South Africa started on 27 March 2020 [15] and progressed through various levels. It is also one of the ...
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Rep. Jennifer Boylan was at her son's elementary school for a Valentine's Day party in 2013, shortly after the Sandy Hook mass shooting.During the festivities, the school held a lockdown drill ...
When a Virginia middle school had a lockdown drill last week to prepare for potential emergencies, a transgender student was barred from participating.
Shelter in place in radiological and chemical defense scenarios entails closing all household doors, windows, and vents and taking immediate shelter in a readily accessible location that puts as much indoor air and radiation shielding-mass between the individual and the hazardous outside air, such as a basement or centrally located medium to small room, and trying to make it as airtight as ...