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FDA shares guidelines on how supermarket shoppers can stay healthy during coronavirus crisis 04/20/2020 06:16am • A sign at a Safeway supermarket in Northwest D.C. advises shoppers to wear face masks and practice social distancing on April 18, 2020. (WTOP/Alejandro Alvarez) While businesses across the D.C.-region remain closed, many grocery stores are busier than ever — and health officials are releasing Arlington County rolls out coronavirus relief grants for small businesses 04/17/2020 12:49pm • FILE - In this March 25, 2020 file photo, a closed sign hangs in the window of a shop in Portsmouth, N.H., due to coronavirus concerns. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) Arlington County, Virginia, has approved a grant program for small businesses in the county that have been affected by the corona Robots deliver restaurant food in Fairfax City 04/17/2020 12:10pm • Fairfax City, Virginia, has partnered with Starship Technologies to allow restaurants to use its sidewalk drones for contactless deliveries in a limited area during the coronavirus outbreak. So far, restaurants using them include Havabite Eatery, Coyote Grille, Hamrock’s Restaurant, The Wine Ho From thriving to surviving: DC-area food businesses feel impact of COVID-19 04/16/2020 10:22pm • For most restaurants in the D.C. region, the pandemic has been devastating. And businesses that were thriving before the coronavirus crisis are now barely getting by. Thirty-eight percent of restaurants have closed their doors, according to the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. F More social distancing measures suggested in Calvert County stores 04/16/2020 06:00pm • Shopping on certain days depending on the first letter of your last name. Disinfecting wipes for shopping carts. Limiting customers per square feet. These are the latest measures suggested by the health department in Calvert County, Maryland, for shoppers and stores. Citing overcrowding in gro Coronavirus crisis drives Virginia nonprofit to help those in need in new ways 04/16/2020 07:54am • This article was written Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry in Virginia's Prince William County, which has provided free food to area residents since 2005, is ada What businesses can stay open in Maryland? 04/16/2020 07:30am • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered all nonessential businesses closed in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic. So, what is considered essential and nonessential? It’s a long list, available here, but WTOP has compiled the highlights. Most importantly, essential businesses in the food a What businesses can stay open in Virginia? 04/16/2020 07:20am • Gov. Ralph Northam, citing the continued spread of the new coronavirus, has ordered all Virginia schools closed for the rest of the academic year and placed new restrictions on many businesses, ordering some of them closed, as well. Northam’s executive order, released later in the day, spells i What businesses can stay open in DC? 04/16/2020 07:08am • UPDATED APRIL 16 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered nonessential businesses in the District to close starting at 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. That means tours, salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors, gyms and other services not related to emergency response will be closed. Nonessential businesses ca Idea of suspending bag tax in Montgomery County gets scrubbed 04/16/2020 05:27am • A proposal to suspend the 5-cent tax on plastic and paper bags in Maryland's Montgomery County as a way to curb the spread of coronavirus is getting nixed by the the county council member who proposed it. A couple of weeks ago Council member Will Jawando suggested suspending the tax. The tax is p Pandemic rider drop creates path to speed Silver Line extension work 04/15/2020 03:45pm • A view of the Metro Silver Line track looking toward the Dulles International Airport control tower. (WTOP/Dave Dildine) Stay-home orders, and progress on software safety concerns, could help speed up work on the Silver Line extension to Dulles International Airport, since Metro now appears to b Making your own coronavirus face mask, no sewing required 04/15/2020 10:30am • With Prince George's, Anne Arundel and Charles counties being added to the list of Maryland jurisdictions that now require masks to go shopping during this coronavirus crisis, you might find yourself scrambling to come up with a face covering. As the new restrictions go into effect, Anne Arundel AP PHOTOS: Virus threatening Egypt's fragile economy 04/15/2020 05:12am • CAIRO (AP) — It wasn't unexpected, but the ban on visitors to Egypt's famed Pyramids amid the coronavirus pandemic still came as a shock to souvenir vendor Sayed el-Gibri and other tourism workers. As the virus spread, the government stepped up preventive measures, culminating in a ban on all i Md. officers involved in shooting return to full duty; chief cites pandemic staffing issues 04/14/2020 10:42pm • Six Hyattsville police officers who had been on administrative duty following a fatal Maryland shooting have been returned to full-duty status. Hyattsville Police Chief Amal Awad said her department has been short-staffed for a year and fears the situation would worsen if any of her officers were PHOTOS: DC-area restaurants, bars get creative with unexpected takeout options 04/14/2020 04:20am • .gallery__img--caption{ text-align: unset;} Did you ever think you’d be able get a mixed drink delivered in a Capri-Sun style pouch (named after the nation’s most prominent infectious diseases expert, no less) or take home three days’ worth of fancy family-style dinners from a rest