Photos: Coronavirus shutdown hits France's daily life

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

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1/19
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.
NYT
2/19
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.
AFP
3/19
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.
REUTERS
4/19
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.
AFP
5/19
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.
NYT
6/19
People sit near the mostly empty Champs-Élysées, with few cars or tourists circling the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.
NYT
7/19
People form a queue outside a bakery in the Place de la Republique area of Paris.
Bloomberg
8/19
A woman stands next to empty shelves in a supermarket in Paris.
AFP
9/19
An empty street is pictured in Paris.
AP
10/19
An empty classroom is seen at a closed school in Paris.
AP
11/19
A dog walks past a closed resteraunt in Le Touquet, northern France.
AFP
12/19
People stay away each other as they queue at a drugstore in Strasbourg, eastern France.
AP
13/19
A woman wearing a protective mask, walks near Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
REUTERS
14/19
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.
AFP
15/19
Vietnamese tourists wearing face masks and wedding clothes stand in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris.
AFP
16/19
Travellers wearing facemasks amid fears of the coronavirus walk through Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
AFP
17/19
A pedestrian walks along a street of shuttered stores including a bakery (boulanger) in the Bastille area of Paris.
Bloomberg
18/19
An employee carries chairs inside to a closed cafe restaurant in Paris.
Bloomberg
19/19
People sit gather on the grass near the Louvre, which is closed until further notice, in Paris.
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