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- Emmanuel Macron announced Monday evening the postponement of the second round of municipal elections and a reinforcement of travel restrictions in France from this Tuesday noon.
- 100,000 police and gendarmes are mobilized to control an unprecedented containment in France.
- Monday evening, Public Health France counted 6,633 contaminations and 148 deaths.
- Border closures, state of alert… European countries are taking measures, sometimes drastic and unprecedented, while the WHO speaks of “a major global health crisis of our time”.
> Follow the day's events live:
6:55 a.m. Colombia closes all of its borders until May 30. Colombia will close all its borders from Tuesday until May 30 to fight the spread of the coronavirus, announces President Ivan Duque. "I made the decision to close, from midnight, all the land, sea and river borders of the country, from March 17, 2020 until May 30," tweets the head of state.
6:45 a.m. Being "able to justify a trip". Concretely, all people who circulate from this Tuesday noon must be "able to justify their trip", at the risk of being fined up to 135 euros according to Christophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior.
Coronavirus: "Stay at home", insists Christophe Castaner
The tolerated trips will concern those made between home and work when it is absolutely necessary, to go shopping, for health reasons, or even for "compelling family motive or the assistance of vulnerable people", details Christophe Castaner.
6:42 a.m. In the United States, the primary reported in Ohio. Ohio authorities are closing the polls a few hours before the opening of the presidential primaries on Tuesday.
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6:40 a.m. President Maduro announces a "total quarantine" in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro decrees the quarantine of the whole of Venezuela to fight against the coronavirus, which has infected 33 people in the country so far.
"From Tuesday, Venezuela will enter into social quarantine," Nicolas Maduro said on radio and television, adding that this "drastic measure necessary" would apply to "the whole country".
6:35 a.m. France is preparing for confinement. An unprecedented containment comes into force in France this Tuesday at noon and for a minimum of 15 days to try to stem the epidemic of coronavirus.
Macron: "For 15 days, travel will be greatly reduced"
6:30 am. An exceptional police mobilization. 100,000 police and gendarmes are mobilized to control an unprecedented containment in France.
Coronavirus: 100,000 police and gendarmes mobilized to control
6:25 a.m. 148 dead in France. Monday evening, Public Health France counted 6,633 contaminations, and 148 deaths. Knowing that there were Sunday evening about 400 patients in serious condition, and that the official figure of the patients does not take into account those who do not present acute symptoms.
