Nearly 800,000 French people have been hit with on-the-spot fines for flouting the government’s strict stay-at-home orders in place since mid-March to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Thursday. M Castaner told senators: “Over 12.6 million police checks have been carried out and some 762,106 people have been fined [for breaking the home confinement rules].”