This was bad news for theme parks, and all the major locations, from Disney to Universal, to Six Flags, announced they were closing down for the rest of March.
Now Universal has become the first to extend its closures, as both the Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood will now be closed until April 19.
It was just a couple of weeks ago now when the coronavirus outbreak went from being a theoretical problem to a real one.
Reducing transmission of the virus become paramount and that meant that any place where large numbers of people might gather were potentially hot spots.