BEIJING: Performances have been suspended at one of Beijing’s oldest and most renowned theaters as part of a new wave of shop and restaurant closures in response to a spike in coronavirus cases in China’s capital.
The Jixiang Theater in Beijing’s downtown Wangfujing shopping district was originally built in 1906 and recently moved to its current location on the 8th floor of a shopping mall that also houses shops and a fast-food restaurant. It is famed for performances of Peking opera and other traditional art forms.
Performances were due to resume on November 27, but such dates for reopening have frequently been extended.
China reported 24,263 new cases on Saturday, 515 of them in Beijing. The vast majority were asymptomatic.
Despite that, lockdowns and other strict control measures have been put in place around the