Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration wants parents to keep children at home instead of taking them to day care if their school has closed because of coronavirus.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — As schools close amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Family and Social Services Administration is asking parents to keep their kids at home.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the FSSA said that "children who are out of school due to possible contact with a positive case should observe social isolation and be at home, not in a large child care setting."

The administration also wrote that anyone taking care of those kids during social isolation" should not be older than 65 or anyone with a chronic disease or weakened immune system.

Additionally, the state requires any day care provider who has more than five children in the home to be licensed.