Here the situation is pretty bad too. The government didn't react quickly and a lot of French people are dumb and don't follow the basic rules.

Anyway, we are asked to wash our hands regularly, to cough in our elbow and to avoid being closed to people. We are not allowed to wear masks or buy ones. They are for the nurses and doctors.

All the departments (or counties if you prefer) are not all infected or few infected. However, yesterday night, the French President asked us to stay home. I mean all the French people. This confinement will last 15 days bbut we all expect to be confined for 45 days or so. We are allowed to go out to buy food, go to the pharmacy or to work for those who can't work via internet at home. So many Parisians and people fleed their cities to go the countryside where there are few cases (there are a lot of cases in Paris and its area). I fear the virus will spread faster in places that were spared until now. Also, we need a piece of paper to justify why we go out. We have to show it to the police controls on the street (when you see one) otherwise we will have to pay a fine.

What else? Schools, shops, companies are closed. Only the supermarkets, the pharmacies, the banks, the post offices remain open. Oh and it's panic in some supermarkets. People rushed to buy food and other items. So now we are short of meat, pasta and rice for example. But the situation should improve because there is no reason the supermarkets won't have supplies again.

Now I just hope that people will respect the rules and will stay at home to avoid contacts. Some of our hospitals have already warned they wouldn't be able to handle the situation properly if French people still go on behaving like there was no virus on our territory.

Many people are scared or worried, me included.

I know that in China and South Korea, things are improving though some cases or clusters remain. I hope the situation will improve for all of us.