https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/david-schramm-wings-dead-dies-1203548344/

Hours after municipal authorities in Shanghai gave more than 200 cinemas the greenlight to re-open Saturday, national-level Chinese authorities on Friday ordered all theaters throughout the country shut again due to concerns over continued coronavirus risks.

Some believe the sudden reversal of policy may be related to the fact that a new patient was diagnosed yesterday with coronavirus via localized transmission rather than exposure to overseas cases in Zhejiang province, which borders uber-populous Shanghai and Jiangsu province.

China has been taking drastic measures to stem the number of “imported” coronavirus cases coming into the country, which now account for almost all of their newly reported patients.

On Thursday, it announced a temporary ban on all foreigners entering the country, even if they have valid visas or residence permits. It had previously limited all foreign and domestic airlines to just one flight at no more than 75% capacity per week into the country. In late February, Beijing began mandating that anyone returning to the capital undergo a costly 14-day government-run quarantine at their own expense.

The second of three waves of the brutal 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was its deadliest. Chinese authorities and high-level experts have taken pains to reassure the public there that there will likely not be a second wave of coronavirus infections, saying that the country has taken sufficient measures domestically to contain the disease as long as it doesn’t come in via travellers from outside, harder hit regions.

https://variety.com/2020/biz/entertainment-industry/china-moves-to-re-shutter-all-cinemas-nationwide-1203546923/