Cineworld in Leicester Square, London
Movie theaters, and all non-essential businesses, in England will be ordered to close for the time being this year, and the government will pronounce on Sunday that the country will be on a national blockade for a month from Thursday through early December.
The news comes as the UK deals with an alarming wave of new coronavirus infections. The Scientific Emergency Advisory Group (SAGE) told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that COVID-19 is spreading much faster than its worst-case scenarios and may simply potentially kill another 85,000 people this winter. Daily cases have now reached 24,405, with 274 deaths on Friday. The total number of official deaths is now 46,229.
With a momentary wave spreading across Europe, France and Germany announced lockouts this week, cinemas in Italy were also closed, while Spain imposed a curfew to stop the spread of the virus.
After the first closure in March, the maximum number of British cinemas had slowly begun to reopen during the summer in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet delay.
However, last month, the main exhibition chain Cineworld, owner of Regal in the United States, took the shocking resolve to close all of its sites as the studio propelled its most important titles, adding the upcoming Bond film No Time To Die in 2021.
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