COVID-19: Curtains rise in China cinemas as normality slowly returns

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Hundreds of cinemas reopened in scores of Chinese cities Monday after a six-month nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus, highlighting its ...

20 Jul 2020 06:18PMSHANGHAI: Hundreds of cinemas reopened in scores of Chinese cities on Monday after a six-month nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus, highlighting its success in taming an epidemic still raging in parts of the world.

"We are really looking forward to it, because our front desk often receives calls from viewers asking when our theatre will reopen," said Bao Yaopei, manager of a Shanghai outlet of the SFC chain, one of China's largest movie-theatre franchises. "Audiences are really looking forward to this too - to be able to enter cinemas, sit together with others and feel the happiness that movies bring."But coronavirus anxiety remains in the air, with cinemas in Beijing still closed for now.beginning on Monday after going more than two weeks without a new local infection, declaring that it had contained a cluster that emerged in June.

Beijing's lowered alert will allow venues such as parks, museums, fitness centres and libraries to increase daily visitor traffic to 50 per cent of normal capacity, and conferences of up to 500 participants can go ahead with proper safeguards in place.

 

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