Hong Kong cinemas, along with the Walt Disney Co.'s Hong Kong theme park, have shut their doors again amid a local flareup of novel coronavirus infections.
Across the border in the vastly larger mainland Chinese market, rumors that movie theaters would get the official green light to reopen in late July have yet to materialize.
The renewed shutdown in Hong Kong came in response to 41 local coronavirus cases reported Monday, nearly half of them untraced.
Late Monday night, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam held a press conference announcing that the city would be instituting its strictest social distancing rules to date, including limiting the size of all public gatherings from 50 people to four, forbidding dining in restaurants from.
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