The country is in a complete lockdown at the moment, with most non-essential businesses, including bars and restaurants, closed.
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On Wednesday, the province joined Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia by calling a public emergency, and banned most non-essential services, including public gyms, bars, and theatres.
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A record 3.3 million people filed for first-time jobless benefits last week as governors around the country shut down most non-essential businesses in their states, the Department of Labor reported Thursday.
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By the week of March 10, elected officials in most major cities had seen the writing on the wall and instituted mandatory curfews and shutdowns of most non-essential gathering spaces, including bars and restaurants.
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Following the advice from public health officials, every province has declared a state of emergency, closing most non-essential services, such as bars, nightclubs, and dine-in restaurants, and crowded services like daycares, faith-based institutions, and libraries.
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Later, on October 1, 2013, at 12:01 am EDT, Congress' inability to agree on a spending bill led to a government shutdown. During the shutdown, most "non- essential" government employees were furloughed. This resulted in approximately 800,000 government workers being put on a leave beginning October 1. Congress later unanimously voted to restore pay to the furloughed workers.
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A particularly severe budget crisis occurred in the United States in November 1995, when the House of Representatives under Speaker Newt Gingrich and the administration of President Bill Clinton quarrelled over apportionments. The failure of the House and Clinton to pass a continuing budget resolution to apportion temporary funds forced a closure of most non-essential United States government offices for several weeks.
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History repeated for the United States in 2013. It again occurred with a Democratic President, Barack Obama. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives boycotted the budget to protest the Affordable Care Act. The failure of the House to pass a continuing budget resolution forced a closure of most non-essential United States government offices for several weeks in October 2013.
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Indian pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare announced that late- stage trials of the company's possible COVID-19 vaccine are due to be completed in March 2021, with the potential to produce 100 million doses of the vaccine every year. Health authorities in the Pakistani province of Sindh extended the lockdown there until at least 15 August in response to surging coronavirus cases, with most non-essential businesses remaining closed, and residents advised to maintain a social distance of three feet and wear a face mask in all public spaces.
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