{"id":17698,"date":"2020-03-01T22:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=17698"},"modified":"2020-03-01T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:43:03","slug":"pariss-louvre-museum-closes-over-staff-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/03\/01\/pariss-louvre-museum-closes-over-staff-coronavirus-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris&#8217;s Louvre museum closes over staff coronavirus fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Louvre in Paris, the world&#8217;s most visited museum, closed to visitors on Sunday after staff refused to work due to coronavirus fears, unions and management said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 300 staff met in the morning and voted &#8220;almost unanimously&#8221; not to open, Christian Galani of the CGT labour union told AFP, leaving many would-be visitors disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louvre management later confirmed the museum was closed for the entire day, and said it would refund ticket-holders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We apologise for any inconvenience and will keep you informed as the situation develops,&#8221; the museum said on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louvre in Paris, the world&#8217;s most visited museum, closed to visitors on Sunday after staff refused to work due to coronavirus fears, unions and management said. Around 300 staff met in the morning and voted &#8220;almost unanimously&#8221; not to open, Christian Galani of the CGT labour union told AFP, leaving many would-be visitors disappointed. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17700,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions\/17700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}