Lynn Street and Wilson Boulevard, usually bustling on a Monday, is all quiet this morning (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
Above Lynn Street looking toward DC from Freedom Park (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
When asked how busy it’s been, the TSA agent on the right said “it ebbs and flows. Mostly it’s been ebbing.” (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
Ronald Reagan National Airport (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
Reagan National Airport on Monday morning (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
Westover Market and Beer Garden announcing new hours due to Coronavirus/COVID-19 (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
An empty Clarendon Metro (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
An empty Clarendon Metro (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
A sign on the door of the CVS in Rosslyn (Staff Photo by Jay Westcott)
Empty tables outside True Food Kitchen in Ballston
A shopkeeper sits at a mall kiosk at a sparsely populated Ballston Quarter mall
(Updated at 4:05 p.m.) Amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, much of the usually bustling places around Arlington seemed like a ghost town this morning.
The Clarendon Metro station and Reagan National Airport were eerily empty at times. Only a handful of people could be wandering Ballston Quarter mall and eating at local restaurants. Other than grocery stores, drug stores and Costco, many stores were quiet.
At Bearded Goat barber shop in Ballston, barbers were serving their last clients before closing for at least the next two weeks.
On I-395 and other heavily-traveled highways, traffic volumes that could be mistaken for Christmas morning could be seen.
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