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The Louvre museum in Paris kept its doors closed to visitors today as staff withheld labour citing fears over the coronavirus, a union representative told AFP. Some 300 staff of the world's most visited museum met in the morning and voted "almost unanimously" not to open in the morning, Christian Galani of the CGT labour union told AFP. IMAGES

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