France closes Louvre as Covid-19 cases mount

NSTworld: France’s famed Louvre museum closed on Sunday as Covid19 coronavirus cases mounted across Europe.

The world’s most visited museum was shuttered after staff refused to open the museum over coronavirus fears.

French government and officials including French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, French Health and Solidarity Minister Olivier Veran and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a defence council concerning the coronavirus outbreak, in Paris. -REUTERS pic

It has rattled global markets and prompted unprecedented measures from governments scrambling to contain the outbreak, which the World Health Organisation has warned could become a pandemic. Infections nearly doubled in the last 48 hours in Italy, Europe’s hardest hit country, the head of the country’s civil protection body said on Sunday.

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