(CNN)A show of Disney's "Aladdin" connected Broadway was canceled Wednesday -- 1 nighttime aft the show's return to the theater -- due to the fact that of Covid-19 cases detected successful the theatre company, amusement runners said.
It is the archetypal known amusement cancellation owed to Covid-19 since Broadway began reopening earlier this period aft shutting down successful March 2020 owed to the pandemic.
"Through our rigorous investigating protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases person been detected wrong the institution of Aladdin astatine The New Amsterdam Theatre," the amusement said Wednesday successful a tweet. "We volition proceed to supply enactment to the affected Aladdin institution members arsenic they recover."
Show runners didn't accidental however galore Covid-19 cases were detected, noting they volition supply much accusation Thursday regarding aboriginal performances.
Broadway is large concern for New York's system -- an estimated 97,000 radical are employed by shows. And erstwhile Covid-19 archetypal swept crossed the US, it made New York City 1 of the archetypal microorganism hotspots, forcing theaters to shutter for astir 18 months.
This month, theaters began gradually reopening, raising their curtains with wellness measures successful spot to assistance support against the dispersed of coronavirus.
All of New York's 41 Broadway theaters necessitate eligible audiences, crews, performers and different unit to beryllium vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Broadway League's policy. Children nether 12 and those unvaccinated owed to wellness conditions oregon spiritual reasons indispensable supply a antagonistic Covid-19 trial to beryllium granted entry. Audience members are besides required to beryllium masked wrong theaters.
Breakthrough cases hap erstwhile idiosyncratic tests affirmative for Covid-19 astatine slightest 14 days aft they person been afloat vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Such infections tin origin illness with symptoms but immoderate vaccinated radical who go infected with Covid-19 amusement nary symptoms astatine all. Research has shown that if radical go infected aft vaccination, typically they get a milder case.
New York is 1 of the astir vaccinated states successful the nation, with much than 63% of its residents afloat vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed Wednesday.
CNN's Carolyn Sung and Marianne Garvey contributed to this report.
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