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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday a statewide mandate to prohibit non-essential travel and operations amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolinians will need to 'stay at home,' North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday.A statewide North Carolina 'stay at home' proclamation will order residents to suspend all unnecessary travel through April 29."I know this order may lead to more hardship and heartache," Cooper said.Essential services, such as grocery stores and medical services, will reopen open and operational.The governor noted three North Carolinians have died due to COVID-19 and the state has 763 confirmed cases of the...

Gov. Roy Cooper has ordered North Carolina residents statewide to stay at home starting at 5 p.m. Monday. North Carolina’s 10 million residents will join about half of the United States who are or soon will be under stay-at-home orders from their governors in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.