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"Stay at home!": France under house arrest facing the coronavirus

The French began Tuesday confinement of at least two weeks, unprecedented in the history of the country, to try, after Italy or Spain and like Belgium now, to stem the epidemic of coronavirus compared to a " war "to be fought by Emmanuel Macron.

The entire population must henceforth remain cloistered under penalty of fines, except for food, treatment or work, in particular health personnel and the police.

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