In a somber address to the nation, the President said that from Tuesday midday people should stay at home and only go out for essential activities.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered stringent restrictions on people’s movement that would last at least two weeks to slow the spread of theFrance had already shut down restaurants and bars, closed schools and put ski resorts off limits, but Macron said measures unprecedented in peacetime were needed as the number of infected people doubled every three days and deaths spiraled higher.
In a somber address to the nation, the President said that from Tuesday midday people should stay at home and only go out for essential activities.“I know what I am asking of you is unprecedented but circumstances demand it. We are at war,” Macron said. Macron said he was postponing the second round of local elections on Sunday and was suspending the government’s reform agenda, starting with his overhaul of the pension system.
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