Photos: Coronavirus shutdown hits France's daily life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A woman stands next to empty shelves in a supermarket in Paris.

An empty street is pictured in Paris.

An empty classroom is seen at a closed school in Paris.

A dog walks past a closed resteraunt in Le Touquet, northern France.

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

A woman wearing a protective mask, walks near Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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.

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

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

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

An employee carries chairs inside to a closed cafe restaurant in Paris.

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