Anger as Parisians escaping city lockdown head to the countryside

March 18, 2020 By La rédaction de Mediapart

An exodus from Paris of the wealthy with second homes or those with provincial families to welcome them, hoping to enjoy greener environments with which to live out the nationwide home confinement order issued to contain the spread of the coronavirus, is causing concern in some relatively unaffected regions that the fleeing Parisians are bringing the virus with them.

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Parisians who fled the French capital before the national lockdown are finding the welcome to second or family homes in the countryside less than warm after locals accused them of spreading the coronavirus, reports The Guardian.

Anger as Parisians escaping city lockdown head to the countryside

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