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The theme park of disneyland in the eastern city China of Shanghai announced today that it will temporarily close again due to restrictions anti covid just four days after reopening its doors after almost a month closed for the same reason.
For the moment, the parts of the complex that had reopened a week before the amusement park – the Disneytown shopping street and a nearby park – and the two hotels will continue to “operate normally,” says the management statement, which does not specify a date for the reopening of disneyland.
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The park was closed on October 31 due to the discovery of a covid positive who had visited it, which left the nearly 19,000 people who were then inside trapped for hours, who could not leave until they underwent a test. a PCR test and obtained a negative result.
After its reopening last Thursday, all visitors had to show a negative PCR test certificate from the last 48 hours, pass a body temperature test, show their health QR code on a mobile application, scan the QR codes of which the authorities They are used to determine who has visited a place and to wear a mask at all times.
After the local government banned people from other parts of the country from entering public places for five days, disneyland He clarified that they could visit the park and ride the attractions, but they could not eat in the restaurants or access the stores.
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Disneyland Shanghai It has already been closed for more than three months -between the end of March and the end of June- within the framework of the strict confinement dictated by the authorities in the face of the worst covid outbreak since the start of the pandemic, caused by the contagious omicron variant.
Although the numbers of new infections in the city are still well below those experienced in the spring and those now registered in other parts of the country, at the national level they broke their record this week and are still close to 40,000, an intolerable rate for the Chinese authorities, rooted in their ‘zero covid’ strategy.
Source: Elcomercio
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