Philly orders sweeping shutdown of businesses and city services as coronavirus spreads

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has ordered all nonessential businesses to shut down by 5 p.m. Monday and said the city will halt all nonessential government operations by Tuesday, in the city’s most aggressive steps yet to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

DiNic’s did not offer counter service during lunch on Monday at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. The market was taking precautions due to the coronavirus.Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer

by Anna Orso, Rob Tornoe, Sean Collins Walsh, Julia Terruso, and Laura McCrystal

Updated March 16, 2020, 5:22 p.m. ET

Published March 16, 2020, 12:55 p.m. ET