States and localities continue to take additional measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, including requiring residents to stay home and for non-essential businesses to close physical locations and require 100 percent of their workforce to telecommute.
What businesses, then, are considered “essential”?
This differs depending on state or locality. See the resource below provided by Multistate Associates.

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