Almost two months after Hong’s Kong’s Disneyland theme park closed its gates, weeds are growing in the car park. At one of the resort’s hotels, the only parts of the complex that are still open, a pianist plays jazz covers of Disney classics to an almost empty lobby.
Around the corner, construction workers are labouring 24 hours a day to convert a plot of land into government quarantine facilities to house up to 100 coronavirus patients by next month.
The spectacle of Disneyland without visitors reflects the wider economic woes facing Hong Kong, which began grappling with the economic fallout of coronavirus weeks before the disease claimed its first victims in the US and Europe.