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Panicked shoppers at an Ikea in China rushed for the exits and pushed their way through throngs of security guards Saturday when it was announced that a was about to commence.
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According to CNN News, city health officials in Shanghai ordered the Ikea closed after a close contact of a coronavirus case was
One video taken inside the store showed a chaotic scene as desperate shoppers crammed through an exit, trying to avoid being trapped inside.
Another video showed a half-dozen uniformed men trying to hold a set of doors closed, before a group behind the doors forced them open and ran past the guards.
Shanghai Health Commission deputy director Zhao Dandan told BBC News the sudden shutdown was ordered after a visited the store.
The commission said that close contacts would be placed in “two-day closed-loop management and five-day health monitoring” at the store in the city’s Xuhui District, as per Shanghai’s epidemic prevention and control regulations.
A “closed loop” system often requires people affected to work, eat and sleep in that location or at a nearby quarantine facility, such as a hotel.
It was not reported how many people ended up not being able to leave the Ikea store Saturday.
Shanghai Daily reported Sunday that of the six-year-old boy had been identified, and an additional 80,000 people were ordered to undergo PCR testing as a result of contact tracing.
Strict lockdowns remain a Widespread anger occurred earlier this year among many of the city’s 25 million residents when the government imposed a two month quarantine for the entire city.
China has a relying on mass testing and extensive quarantines to squash potential outbreaks as they appear.
In May, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that as the virus continues to evolve to become more transmissible, China’s zero-COVID policy is not a viable long-term solution.
“When we talk about the zero-COVID strategy, we considering the behavior of the virus now and what we anticipate in the future,” he said at the time, according to Bloomberg.
To date, China — a country with a population of more than 1.4 billion — has recorded of COVID, according to Our World in Data.
