Disneyland announced it's closing down both its parks — due to coronavirus fears — for just the fourth time in its 65-year history.
, Disney announced that both its California parks — Disneyland Resort and Disney California Adventure — will close from now until at least the end of March., and only the fourth time in the parks’ 65-year history that they’ve unexpectedly closed forreason. In a statement, Disney officials said the two parks will close as of Saturday morning, and they’d keep Disneyland hotels open until Monday to give guests time to make new travel arrangements.
To date, there have been no cases of the novel coronavirus tied to Disneyland. But as events and gathering spaces across the country are shutting down, Disney officials said they decided to comply with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s order that gatherings of 250 or more people be canceled or postponed, even though Newsom later clarified that parks like Disney, Universal Studios in Los Angeles, and Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Vista are exempt from that order.
The two Disneyland parks, which are connected but separately ticketed, employ around 31,000 people. Disney did say in its statement that park employees will be paid during the closure. Guests will be issued refunds for tickets and hotel bookings as long as the parks remain closed. This is only the fourth time Disneyland has closed since it opened in 1955. The first time was in 1963 for a national day of mourning after President John F. Kennedy was shot. The park then closed again in 1994 following California’s Northridge earthquake, and on 9/11. This is the first time in Disneyland’s history that both California parks are closed. The adjacent parks recorded 28.
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