Covid-19: Los Angeles partially reopens its restaurants and cinemas
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Director Christopher Nolan, like dozens of other Los Angeles County residents, was able to take a seat in a Burbank movie theater on March 15, 2021. REUTERS - MARIO ANZUONI
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With more than 12 million doses of vaccines administered and hospitalization and contamination figures declining, California has therefore begun a gradual deconfinement.
Monday, it is the county of Los Angeles, very affected with 22,000 dead and 1.2 million cases of coronavirus, which left cinemas, restaurants, sports or even museums to reopen with limited capacity.
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,
Loïc Pialat
Planet Fitness in Inglewood could have reopened as early as Monday.
The management preferred to give themselves 24 extra hours to clean, polish and disinfect.
But beyond immaculate treadmills, subscribers to the room will also discover its new application.
“
All our members will receive a QR code to register without contact.
It allows us to easily know how many members are in the room,
explains Tiarra Farmer, the room manager.
Here, we are targeting 80 people, we have the right to a capacity of 10%.
"
"
It feels good to find some semblance of normality
"
Restaurants can open at 25% of their capacity.
So Bianca takes the opportunity to enjoy a Hawaiian pizza at Grand Central Market, a covered market in Downtown LA A downtown area much less vibrant than usual since the start of the pandemic.
“
This year, Downtown really looked like a ghost town.
It feels good to find a semblance of normality, while being careful,
”she says.
In Burbank, 15 kilometers further north, the AMC multiplex is refueling for its reopening.
Abel has already seen the movie
Judas and the Black Messiah at home
.
But he wants to see it on a big screen.
“
There are a lot of ways to appreciate a film, but I find it strong to live the cinema through a collective experience.
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Christopher Nolan, director of
Tenet
and
The Dark Knight
, sits in the same room as Abel, incognito.
To him too, the cinema had failed.
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