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Iowa enacts health emergency plan closing bars, restaurants

by Associated Press
| March 17, 2020 9:30 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday ordered restaurants, bars, fitness centers, theaters and casinos to close for two weeks as part of a public health emergency plan designed to reduce the community spread of the coronavirus.

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