Disneyland reopening highlights California’s Covid turnaround

Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure park reopened to visitors on Friday (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Disneyland has reopened to excited visitors after an unprecedented 13-month closure, in what tourism officials hope is a sign of California’s rebound from the pandemic.

The reopening came four months after the nation’s most populous state was struggling to combat a surge in coronavirus hospital admissions that packed patients into outdoor tents and killed hundreds of people each day.