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Fending off rumours that he has cancelled a raft of diary engagements because he has caught the coronavirus, France’s president Emmanuel Macron will visit an “operational crisis centre” at the health ministry on Tuesday evening.
The Elysée Palace said Macron wanted to express his “gratitude and support” to the teams coordinating the country’s response to the health emergency.
The UN has postponed its annual meeting on gender equality, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of events across New York next week, over concerns about transmission of the Coronavirus, the Guardian’s Liz Ford writes.
Member states have cancelled all side events organised during the two-week Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which was to begin on Monday.
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