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BREAKING: FG finally reopens cinemas, see date

The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) has revealed that theatres across the country will now reopen on September 11, after months of shutdown.
The association made this public via its Instagram on Monday, in a development that would end months of a shutdown which the federal government enforced in March to stop the spread of the raging coronavirus.
This came after some celebrities had called on the government to reopen cinemas.
“Hip! Hip! Hurray! WE ARE BACK! Visit any Cinema near you from September 11th! We cannot contain our excitement,” it wrote.
According to reports, the chairman of CEAN, Patrick Lee, while speaking on the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown in August, had said the industry kept losing N1 billion on a monthly basis, rendering staff jobless.
“We do not have a situation whereby we have 100, 200, or 500 people in the same place at the same time because of the nature in which cinemas operate,” he had said.
He also said: “We promise to give room for social distancing, 50 percent hall occupancy, use of facemask, hand sanitisers and we have made provision for air conditioning systems that would pump in oxygen.
“We’ve seen other aspects of the economy that are already opened and we have put enough safety protocols in place to ensure, when our customers return to watch movies, they are safe.
“We have lost over N1billion every month that we have been locked down. And it is over N6billion now in six months. Most of our staff are currently unemployed.
“There are over 20,000 that depend on the industry in terms of supplies and those who work with artisans. We are at the point of bankruptcy, we want the government to help us to reopen.”
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