The main hallway of the Ferry Building Marketplace is mostly empty Monday, March 16, 2020, in San Francisco. Millions of California's oldest and youngest residents stayed home Monday as officials took increasingly strident steps to separate people and contain the spread of the coronavirus. Evidence that people were staying home included traffic flowing freely on some freeways that are normally congested during rush hours.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
March 17, 2020
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San Francisco Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place order
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting about 7 million people, ordering residents to stay at home and go outside only for food, medicine and outings that are absolutely essential.