A Disney resort in China has been put on lockdown after a spike in locally transmitted covid cases reported in Shanghai.
All visitors in the park at the time of the announcement have been barred from leaving. The Shanghai government said on its official WeChat account that the park was closed to new visitors and all guests currently inside would need to await the results of their tests before they could leave.
Anyone who had visited the park since Thursday would need to test for Covid-19 three times in three days, it said.
In this situation however, there’s a silver lining for the visitors stuck in the resort. The rides are not stopping, as the park continues to operate.
This is not the first time the park has unexpectedly shut. Last November, 30,000 people were trapped inside after authorities ordered everyone to be tested as part of contact tracing.
China’s controversial zero-Covid policy has already seen millions of people repeatedly locked down, sometimes in unusual locations.
It’s been almost three years since China reported its first coronavirus case, however, authorities across the country seem determined to stop any transmission of the virus by any means necessary.
The Universal Resort in the country’s capital of Beijing reopened on Monday after a five-day closure, which was also prompted by virus measures.
Millions of people are under 200 different lockdowns in China, as of October 24, as the country of 1.45 billion consistently records more than 1,000 new cases a day.
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping signalled that there would be no easing up of the zero-Covid policy, calling it a “people’s war to stop the spread of the virus”.
