'We are at war': France imposes lockdown to combat virus

NSTworld: 'We're not up against another army or another nation. But the enemy is right there: invisible, elusive, but it is making progress.' - Macron France lockdown covid19 coronavirus

France 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 spiralled higher.

"We're not up against another army or another nation. But the enemy is right there: invisible, elusive, but it is making progress." Shoppers wearing a face mask walks in an aisle of a supermarket on March 16, 2020, in Pfastatt, eastern France, as people stock up on goods amid the outbreak of COVID-19. - AFP pic

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