Many universities in the Washington, D.C. area, including American University and Georgetown University, moved their classes online over fears of coronavirus.
The Securities and Exchange Commission became the first federal agency to ask its staff at its Washington, D.C. office to work from home due to coronavirus.
Georgetown Day School was shut down Tuesday because it has community members affiliated with a church, where a reverend was diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Rev. Timothy Cole, a reverend at Christ Church Georgetown who tested positive for the coronavirus, shook hands with hundreds of people in recent weeks.