Shanghai Disneyland will close its gates on Saturday in an effort to stop the spread of the SARS-like virus 26 people and suffered at least 881 deaths, mainly in China. It is not known when the theme park can be reopened.
The Disney & # 39; s Shanghai location, which first opened in 2016, is just a Disney park in mainland China. Hong Kong Disneyland is still open, despite two confirmed cases of a 2019-nCoV coronavirus in the region, and plans by Hong Kong authorities to turn certain holiday camps and military camps into isolated areas.
"In response to the prevention and management of the disease and to ensure the health and safety of our guests and the Cast, Shanghai Disney Resort temporarily closes Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown including the Walt Disney Grand Theater and Wishing Star Park, starting January 25, 2020," Disney said in a statement. website
"We will continue to monitor the situation directly with local government, and will announce the reopening date once it has been confirmed."
Disney & # 39; s Shanghai Resort has said it will return park tickets and any hotel reservations. Disney operates two car-powered hotels in Shanghai Disneyland.
The decision to close Shanghai Disneyland came at the busiest time of the year, with an estimated 1.42 million Chinese celebrating the Lunar New Year and hundreds of millions attending a week-long celebration. The cities of Beijing, Wuhan, Zhejiang and Macau have it canceled their Lunar New Year celebrations this weekend, much like canceling Christmas celebrations in the U.S.
The Chinese government announced on Friday that parts of the Great Wall near Beijing would be closed from Saturday and McDonald's said it would halt business five restaurants
Most likely 33 million people they are closed in at least 10 cities in Hubei province. Planet and train travel is limited to 10 cities and car travel is strictly limited. At least seven movies in China its release from theaters has been released in an effort to keep people out of crowded places like movie theaters.
So far cases of the virus have been confirmed in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. There are also cases to be tried in many other countries as far away as Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Finland and Australia.
The only case in the US so far has been to Washington State and five airports are conducting screenings of passengers from China in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Atlanta & # 39; s Hartsfield-Jackson International, O & # 39; Hare International Chicago Airport. San Francisco International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Johns Hopkins University has created a online tracker updated daily by the latest figures and the World Health Organization (WHO) declined to cite the outbreak as a "global public health emergency," summarized by PHEIC, on Thursday.
The WHO warns that this is an emergency in China, but has hesitated to call it an international emergency because all 26 deaths and most of the illnesses were present on the borders of China. The WHO emergency panel can reconvene at any time if the situation changes.