Hotel chain City Lodge has become the latest company to flag a dramatic hit to its balance sheet as a result of the coronavirus, with full-year normalised headline earnings expected to tumble as much as 132%.

The hotel group, which had all 55 of its hotels cease trading, said on Friday that it would report a normalised headline earnings loss of between R70.1m and R86.1m to R267.1m for the year to end-June 2020. ..

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