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HRC closes due to Coronavirus
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People watchiing on a screen the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, sitting for the last time, before abandoning its meeting due to the Cornavirus, following on from the announcement the day before of a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The session, due to last through next week, had already moved from its habitual setting (pictured here) to the Palais des Nation's largest room, the Assembly Hall, so that people could seated with enough space between them to reduce the risk of infection.

