Disneyland Shanghai Will Reopen May 11th
Among the first places to shut down to the public for the prevention of the spread of the coronavirus were amusement parks. Disney Parks have had to shut down world wide as the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in order to curb infection rates from the virus. Disneyland Shanghai and Hong Kong were the first parks to shut down in January when the virus started spreading in China. Following their closing, Disneyland Tokyo shut down in February while the U.S. parks and Disneyland Paris shut down in mid-March after the declaration of the pandemic.
Disneyland Shanghai, being one of the first parks to close, is the first of the Disney Parks that is meant to reopen. On May 11th, the park will have its official reopening, but don’t expect it to be the same way it was when it closed. The point of closing it in the first place was to stop the coronavirus from spreading, so in order to keep it from doing so, steps must be taken. The plans that are being put into place here in the U.S. for reopening public businesses is expected to be implemented all over the world to a similar degree. For an amusement parks, these sorts of things will kind of create issues for people, but it is the only way this will work.
Due to the unexpected and virulent nature of the coronavirus, steps must be taken to ensure that the rate of new infections doesn’t increase again. These steps include things such as setting up temperature reading checkpoints, allowing much fewer people onto the premises, those who are in the park will have to keep their distance from one another and the employees, and the park must stay as clean as possible. The last one on the list is kind of difficult, since all it takes is someone making contact with a handrail that an infected person touched to contract the virus. Following the reopening, the staff will have to do their best to help people while also keeping themselves safe.
While the Disneyland Shanghai park has an official reopening date with its restrictions for park-goers in place, the rest of the parks don’t have an opening date. Many are starting to think that they may not even have a chance to reopen this year. However, some are hopeful that the parks will be able to reopen sooner, but the reality is that there is no telling when everything will be back to normal. We don’t know for just how long the world, and the restrictions in place, will stay the way that it is. With this in mind, there is no telling when other Disney Parks will reopen.