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New Brunswick's Edmundston region begins a 14-day lockdown. Non-essential travel is prohibited in and out of the area. In addition, all non-essential businesses, schools and public spaces are closed, and all indoor and outdoor gatherings among people of different households are prohibited.
2021-01-23

Sweden, whose government took a lighter approach to the pandemic, including not enforcing lockdowns, reports 5,990 new cases, a new single-day record that pushes the nationwide total to 177,395 cases.
2020-11-13

Ugandan police arrest Stella Nyanzi, a prominent academic and vocal critic of President Yoweri Museveni, for inciting violence as she protested against lockdown measures taken by the government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-05-18

Eleven municipalities of the province of Lodi are put on lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, leaving around 50,000 people affected.
2020-02-21

In the United States, a 14-year-old shoots two students, who were hospitalized in stable condition, in the Madison Local School cafeteria. Two other teenagers are injured, none seriously. The southwestern Ohio school, which had practiced for such an event, immediately went into lockdown; Tuesday classes are cancelled.
2016-02-29

Boston and its suburbs are on lockdown as a result of the manhunt. People were not allowed to go out until the lockdown was lifted, and businesses were also closed.
2013-04-19

North Carolina A&T State University, a college in Greensboro, North Carolina, is put into lockdown in response to reports of a gunman on campus. No gunman is found in the resulting search.
2013-04-12

Peter W. Barca, the leader of the Democrats in the Wisconsin State Assembly, takes legal action to have the decision overturned.
2011-03-10

Protesters pour into the Wisconsin State Capitol following the vote.
2011-03-9

The Wisconsin Senate votes to fine missing Democrats $100 a day for their absence during the 2011 Wisconsin protests.
2011-03-2