County clarifies `essential´ business, travel rules under stay-home order
(WorldNews Belgium)

The apocalypse may be nigh, but it´s not here yet. `Yes, ABC [Alcoholic Beverage Control] stores are considered essential retail. You´re welcome,` deadpanned Fletcher Tove, Buncombe County´s emergency preparedness coordinator, during a March 26 press briefing on the county´s COVID-19 response. But many Buncombe residents, Tove said, were unclear about the definition of essential business in the wake of a supplemental state of emergency declaration, signed by Board of Commissioners Chair Brownie Newman on March 25, that orders all nonessential operations closed as of 8 p.m. March 26 to combat the spread of COVID-19. He noted that...