Photos: Coronavirus shutdown hits France's daily life

Shops, restaurants and entertainment facilities are shut to slow the spread of coronavirus

Published: March 16, 2020 15:36 Compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Digital Content Producer

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People use hand sanitizer outside the Louvre in Paris. | In societies where life plays out on the street or in the cafe, where friends are greeted with kisses on the cheeks, the outbreak is creating fear and fragmentation. Image Credit: NYT

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France ordered the closure of restaurants, bars, cinemas, nightclubs, schools and universities but said food shops, pharmacies and banks would remain open. | Above: A pedestrian walks past a closed resteraunt in Le Touquet, northern France. Image Credit: AFP

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The number of deaths in France from the coronavirus increased by more than a third on Sunday to 127 and over 5,400 have been infected. | Above: People wearing protective suits walk on the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris. Image Credit: REUTERS

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France is preparing an order that would put its inhabitants under partial lockdown to combat the pandemic, a move that would tighten further restrictions on public life. | Above: A woman walks past closed bars in the rue de Lappe in Paris. Image Credit: AFP

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The country will progressively reduce long-distance train, bus and plane travel over the coming days in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus, the government announced Sunday. | Above: A nearly-empty bus in Paris. Image Credit: NYT

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People sit near the mostly empty Champs-Élysées, with few cars or tourists circling the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Image Credit: NYT

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People form a queue outside a bakery in the Place de la Republique area of Paris. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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A woman stands next to empty shelves in a supermarket in Paris. Image Credit: AFP

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An empty street is pictured in Paris. Image Credit: AP

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An empty classroom is seen at a closed school in Paris. Image Credit: AP

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A dog walks past a closed resteraunt in Le Touquet, northern France. Image Credit: AFP

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People stay away each other as they queue at a drugstore in Strasbourg, eastern France. Image Credit: AP

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A woman wearing a protective mask, walks near Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Motorists queue on the highway at the French-German border in Huningue, eastern France, during control operations lead by German police as part of protective measures against the spread of the COVID-19. Germany has reintroduced border controls with France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Denmark from March 16, 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis. Image Credit: AFP

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Vietnamese tourists wearing face masks and wedding clothes stand in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris. Image Credit: AFP

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Travellers wearing facemasks amid fears of the coronavirus walk through Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Image Credit: AFP

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A pedestrian walks along a street of shuttered stores including a bakery (boulanger) in the Bastille area of Paris. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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An employee carries chairs inside to a closed cafe restaurant in Paris. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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People sit gather on the grass near the Louvre, which is closed until further notice, in Paris. Image Credit: NYT

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