The Vatican, realizing that throughout the world (including every diocese in America), the Holy Mass is not being celebrated publicly and confession is not available to so many people, published a reminder about Confession in particular.
I am attaching it's final paragraphs after this. The main point is that sins can still be forgiven when one does not have access to Confession by the following steps: Having perfect contrition by making an act of love for God - choosing Him above all things. Repenting of your sin and asking forgiveness. Keeping the resolve to go to confession when it is offered again that you might respect the pattern that the Lord set up for the forgiveness of sins from the time of His Resurrection (Jn 20:23). We don't know how long this time will be but we know the Lord continues to give us access to His Heart even if not in the sacramental form we, as physical beings, so long for and were made for. God bless you all, Fr. Hahn -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Concluding paragraphs from the Vatican's Note yesterday: Where the individual faithful find themselves in the painful impossibility of receiving sacramental absolution, it should be remembered that perfect contrition, coming from the love of God, beloved above all things, expressed by a sincere request for forgiveness (that which the penitent is at present able to express) and accompanied by votum confessionis, that is, by the firm resolution to have recourse, as soon as possible, to sacramental confession, obtains forgiveness of sins, even mortal ones (cf. CCC, no. 1452). Never before has the Church experienced thus the power of the communion of saints, raising to her Crucified and Risen Lord her vows and prayers, especially the Sacrifice of Holy Mass, celebrated daily, even without the presence of the people, by priests. Like a good mother, the Church implores the Lord that humanity may be freed from such a scourge, invoking the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy and Health of the Sick, and of her Spouse Saint Joseph, under whose patronage the Church has always walked the world. May Mary Most Holy and Saint Joseph obtain for us abundant graces of reconciliation and salvation, in attentive listening to the Word of the Lord, which he repeats to humanity today: “Be still and know that I am God” (Ps 46: 10), “I am with you always” (Mt 28 :20). Given in Rome, from the seat of the Apostolic Penitentiary, on March 19, 2020, Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patron of the Universal Church.