Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Quinton Lucas announced a “stay at home” order Saturday, requiring city residents to remain in their homes except for performing “essential activities” amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“As community spread of COVID-19 continues throughout our region, we are taking aggressive action to flatten the curve and protect our most vulnerable brothers and sisters,” said Lucas said in a Saturday statement.

The order is set to take effect on Tuesday.

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"Essential activities" include tasks necessary to ensuring a person's health and safety or the health and safety of a person’s family or "close personal acquaintances," according to the order.

It also includes obtaining necessary services and supplies like food or sanitation products and prepared food and beverages for delivery or carry out. City residents are also permitted to engage in outdoor activities or do “work providing essential products and services."

The order does not limit weddings, funerals, wakes, memorial services or other gatherings.

Lucas also said the closure extends to schools on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It does not include daycares or early childhood programs.

The order will last through April 24.

Officials in other jurisdictions in the Kansas City area will also enact similar closures, including Jackson County, Mo., as well as Wyandotte County, Kan., which includes Kansas City, Kan., among others, according to KMBC News.

Health officials said the order is necessary due to the "urgency of the COVID-19 public health emergency and imminent rapid progression of the pandemic in our area,” the outlet reported.

There are 77 confirmed coronavirus infections in Missouri as of Saturday night, according to The New York Times.