Napolitano said parents of children whose schools closed should keep them at home instead of taking them out in public.

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If a group of like-minded people develop and enforce their own rules, they are likely to believe in them, which means they will keep them in mind even when the door is closed.

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Mr Newman said officials had contacted schools that closed on Monday to ask them whether there was anything more they could do to keep them open.

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