Hong Kong Disneyland Shut For A Day After Visitor Tests Positive For Covid

Anyone who visited Hong Kong Disneyland on November 14 between 11 am and 6 pm have been told to mandatorily get tested for Covid no later than Thursday.

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New Delhi: Hong Kong's Disneyland will remain closed on Wednesday with the authorities asking the employees to take a compulsory COVID-19 test. The decision was taken after one person, who visited Disneyland over the weekend, was found to have been infected with the coronavirus, news agency Reuters reported.

In a statement, Disneyland said they were acting out of "an abundance of caution", and advised visitors to reschedule their Wednesday trip.

Anyone who visited the amusement park on November 14 between 11 am and 6 pm would also have to mandatorily get tested no later than Thursday, the Reuters report quoted the government as saying in a separate statement.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Disneyland in Hong Kong has had to close multiple times for prolonged durations. It reopened in June 2020 at reduced capacity and with strict social distancing measures in place after remaining closed for nearly five months in the early stages of the pandemic. Disneyland was closed again between December 2020 and February 2021.

Hong Kong’s latest action to shut the theme park for a day comes close on the heels of the recent Shanghai Disneyland incident when visitors already inside the park were told to undergo Covid tests at the exit. Around 30,000 revellers at a Halloween party had been locked inside the theme park for several hours to undergo testing after the discovery of a case linked to the park detected a day earlier.

The Hong Kong health authorities said Tuesday an additional confirmed Covid-19 case was detected in the city, which brings the total cases since the start of the pandemic to 12,389, Financial Times reported. The Covid-positive person is a 21-year-old woman who tested positive at the airport after arriving from a “high-risk” country, the report said.

The Hong Kong government has said it is working towards zero Covid-19 cases so the city’s border with mainland China could be opened.