France president Emmanuel Macron announced in a televised speech on Thursday the shutdown of schools, universities and colleges across the country starting on March 16 for an undetermined amount of time.
Macron also called coronavirus the “biggest health crisis that France has known in a century.” While Macron did not use the word of “quarantine” in his speech, he also asked all French people to limit traveling and work from home as much as possible, as well as advised people above 70 to stay home.
The president said, however, that the municipale elections set for this weekend should be maintained and did not address the current ban on gatherings for more than 1000 people which is valid until April 15.
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