FRANCE-POLITICS-HEALTH-VIRUS

This photograph taken on March 12, 2020, shows a screen broadcasting the declaration of France's President Emmanuel Macron, made from The Elysee Palace in Paris, about the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, at the France 24 channel studio in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, on the outskirts of the French capital. - Emmanuel Macron on March 12, 2020 announced schools in France would close from next week and urged people over 70 to stay at home, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The president also announced that local elections to be held on March 15, will not be postponed. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / AFP)