Three giant U.S.-based chains have closed stores at some locations in China amid a rapidly spreading and deadly virus.
Bloomberg reported McDonald’s Corp. announced Friday it had temporarily closed locations across five cities of China’s Hubei province, while Starbucks Corp. said it would shut some cafes in the country.
Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest theme park operator, said it would close its Disneyland resort in Shanghai effective Saturday, Bloomberg reported.
All of McDonald’s restaurants in the cities of Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Qianjiang and Xiantao closed, the news outlet said. McDonald’s had about 3,000 stores in China at the end of 2018.
Seattle-based Starbucks has about 4,125 cafes there. It didn't elaborate which stores would close.
The coronavirus has been reported in 32 of 34 provinces in China, and a second U.S. case was confirmed Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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