Reportedly the coronavirus outbreak in india is no less with the toll increasing with each passing hour. The suspected cases are increasing and a few among them have tested positive. Besides delhi, telangana too has become prone to the deadly virus where the confirmed cases in hyderabad are two and others are still under suspicion. While government maintains that no need to "panic" and asked people to be careful and take precautions, people have started avoiding groups, crowded places.
Meanwhile in the wake of corona virus infection and fear mongering, this is expected to affect the revenues of theatres and cinemas where crowd gather in large number. With the two cases reported in telangana are from IT industry, IT working crowd are feared to go to common and public places.
As per analysts, the footfalls to singleplexes, multiplexes and single-screen theatres may decrease in this week and the coming week depending on the severity of the situation. Thus coronavirus is causing great worry among producers, distributors and even exhibitors. Especially, multiplexes are going to be at the receiving end. Even bheeshma and HIT revenues were affected at the box office last week due to slowdown of the buzz. coronavirus now throws a major challenge to the movie industry.
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