Nightly show in Swiss block helps beat lockdown blues

Residents of the St-Jean apartments building take part in their choir session, when they sing to entertain themselves, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland April 28, 2020. Picture taken April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) - Dressed in a black trench coat and hat, 36-year-old Audrey Lecomte performed "Singing in the Rain" on a drizzly Tuesday evening to the residents of Geneva's Round House apartment complex, who twirled umbrellas from balconies to the music.

The nightly 6pm "choir" at the 1920s block, a 6-storey architectural monument built in a semi-circle, has become a way to cheer each other up during Switzerland's national lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, now in its seventh week.