Shanghai Disneyland becomes 1st Disney park to reopen amid pandemic

Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland on Monday.
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Shanghai Disneyland reopened on Monday, after being shut down for three months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday, tickets went on sale for the first few days of the reopening, and quickly sold out. Shanghai Disneyland has implemented social distancing guidelines, and is conducting temperature screenings for workers and visitors. People must also wear masks in the park, and at the request of the Chinese government, Shanghai Disneyland is limiting the number of guests to "far below" 24,000 people, or 30 percent of daily capacity, Reuters reports.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.