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Paris Starts a Strange New Coronavirus Life
The superstar city is stirring once again as restrictions ease. But a wave of economic pain looms.
Post-lockdown Paris.
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With face masks at the ready and their hands slathered in gel, patient Parisians lined up on Monday at a safe distance from one another for a first taste of real-life shopping after almost two months of draconian lockdown. After weeks of not being allowed to leave the house without an authorization form, or to go jogging during the daytime, freedom meant being able to browse in a bookstore, visit a barber or stroll along the Seine.
The scenes point to a strange new life for Paris’s city dwellers, and a limbo of sorts before a looming economic storm strikes.