Beijing health officials are pulling back from plans to widen the reopening of businesses in the city, including movie theaters, according to a China news website.
Supchina.com reports that three new coronavirus cases in the past two days have spooked authorities, causing them to reinstitute social distancing rules and reverse decisions on reopening businesses. As a result, indoor entertainment venues, including movie theaters and karaoke rooms, will remain closed until further notice.
Likewise, all sporting events are on hold, and schools that were to reopen Monday will no longer welcome back students.
Six wholesale markets visited by the afflicated patients were also ordered closed, and group meals in restaurants are banned.
The new cases first appeared on Thursday after no new cases for nearly two months. One patient, described as a 52-year-old man, didn’t leave the city and wasn’t in recent contact with anyone who had traveled overseas. He checked into a hospital on Wednesday with a fever.
Smokron85 on June 13rd, 2020 at 14:53 UTC »
RIP movie theater industry. 1905-2020
mr_lightbulb on June 13rd, 2020 at 14:34 UTC »
i have a dumb question. is it at all possible the virus is way, way more widespread than we think it is and it's just most people don't know they have/had it?
flipperkip97 on June 13rd, 2020 at 11:48 UTC »
This shit is never going away, is it?