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The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, continues to turn tourists away as staff refuse to work because of coronavirus fears. The Louvre, near the banks of the Seine river in central Paris, received 9.6 million visitors last year, most of them foreigners including Americans, Chinese and Europeans. IMAGES
At 9am sharp, the president-director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, welcomes the first visitors for the reopening of the Paris museum, after six months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As with all museums, the rule of 8 m2 per visitor is applied. IMAGES
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
"Work, consume and shut up": about 200 demonstrators protest in the third arrondissement of Paris against a new coronavirus lockdown. IMAGES
The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, reopens after its three-month coronavirus closure today, but with nearly a third of its galleries still shut. (COMPLETES VID1UP544_EN) IMAGES
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