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France Closes All Theaters, Restaurants and Stores to Stop Coronavirus Spread

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After limiting gatherings to 100 people and closing down schools, daycares and universities, the French government has now decided to shut down all stores, restaurants, and movie theaters in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The new restrictions, announced by the prime minister Édouard Philippe on Saturday, will take effect at midnight for an indefinite amount of time.

Stores of first necessities, such as pharmacies, grocery stores, gas stations, banks and newspaper stands, will remain open.

Jocelyn Bouyssy, the president of CGR Cinemas, France’s second biggest multiplex chains, said the government’s new measures came as a surprise. “We didn’t expect it all, we were told yesterday that we would be allowed to stay open with a

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