'We are very worried because we have visitors from everywhere,' Andre Sacristin, a Louvre employee, told The Associated Press.
"The risk is very, very, very great," Sacristin insisted."It's only a question of time [before workers will become infected," he added.
The Louvre's decision came after France officially banned all large events of 5,000 people or more on Saturday, in a bid to curb the spread of the highly contagious virus. Two people have died in France as a result of coronavirus, which currently does not have any approved vaccine.according to Radio France Internationale"We're at the second phase," he noted."That's to say the virus is going around our country and we have to stop it spreading.
Around the world, more than 85,000 people have been confirmed to have the virus, with the vast majority of the infections being in China, where the virus was first discovered. Of those known to have been infected, nearly 3,000 had died as of Saturday. Experts best assessmentsthe virus' death rate is 2 percent or lower, but the risk of infection has led to global panic and a large drop in the stock market.
The chances of dying from coronavirus appear to be significantly lower for people under the age of 40, particularly if they do not have any pre-existing health conditions. The death rate starts to spike among people over the age of 50, with those most likely to die being over the age of 80. Men also appear to be somewhat more likely to die after being infected.
Vice President Mike Pence--who President Donald Trump has tasked with heading up the U.S. effort to contain the spread of the virus--said on Sunday that a vaccine being developed to combat the virus would go to clinical trials in six weeks,
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