A dozen provinces have been affected, out of the total of 30 in the country, and the virus has already reached Beijing.
The Chinese capital ordered the closure of part of its cinemas on Saturday, as the country faces an epidemic outbreak of COVID-19 less than 100 days before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The imperial city, which organized the Summer Games in 2008, will become the first city in the world to host the Winter Olympic competition next February.
In this context, the authorities, which follow a zero tolerance policy against the smallest case of covid-19, resort to radical measures to eradicate an epidemic re-outbreak for a very limited time, with less than 300 cases.
A dozen provinces have been affected, out of the total of 30 in the country, and the virus has already reached Beijing.
To curb the contagion, all cinemas in the Xicheng district will be closed until November 14, as ordered by the municipality.
This district, which groups neighborhoods west of Tiananmen Square, has one million inhabitants.
This decision comes as China reported 59 new locally-sourced covid cases nationwide on Saturday, a record number since mid-September.
On Friday, the Beijing authorities canceled hundreds of flights and asked its citizens to postpone weddings and hold shorter funerals, after tightening containment measures to stop new outbreaks of covid-19. (I)
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