Ikea shoppers in Shanghai panic after security locks down store on Covid risk

The Mayhem scene opened at IKEA in Shanghai when the health authority tried to lock the shop on Saturday and quarantined at the location after studying someone who had been in contact with a Covid-19 patient had visited.

News about Shutdown Flash makes the buyer run away and shout in an attempt to get out of the building before the door is locked, video on social media shows. 25 million people are experienced Shanghai, after being prohibited from leaving their homes for two months of spring in an effort to eradicate the virus.

The health authority in the financial center said that they imposed “temporary control steps” in the store, after they learned that the close contact of a 6-year-old boy with Covid infection without symptoms was there. They did not say when close contact was in the store. Everyone in IKEA and other areas affected by quarantine needs to be two days and then do five days of health supervision, said Zhao Dandan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Health Commission, in a briefing on Sunday.

Locking Snap which was mobilized as part of the Covid Zero China strategy – where people in a building or urban district were prohibited from going with a little notification – had caused many examples of panic throughout the country. In recent months, residents at the Shenzhen technology center, the capital of the province of Sichuan, Chengdu, and Holiday Island have increased the fence, ran to the beach and pouring office towers after learning that locking must be worn.

There were 2,312 new infections reported nationally on Monday, the first time in more than three months the case reached 2,000 for three consecutive days in China. The widening outbreak shows that it is not safe, including the resort area where residents hope to relax or this new area emerged from the worst flare.

The Chinese Covid outbreak makes residents try to escape from a lock

In a video circulated on social media, an announcement can be heard in IKEA who says officials ask for shopping centers to immediately close and stop people from entering or leaving. When security guards and health workers in private protective equipment try to close the door to prevent people from coming out, dozens scream and push them until they free themselves, the video shows.

Responding to the epidemic prevention guidelines, Ikea Shanghai Xuhui was temporarily closed on August 14 and 15, the company said in a statement.

Those who did not get out were sealed inside the shop from 8 pm until after midnight, when they were transferred to quarantine hotels, according to a visitor who posted about his experience in Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok version.

China’s Covid Zero can last for many years because of working for XI

Shanghai residents underwent traumatic locking in April and May when the city tried to remove the biggest outbreaks that China had seen since Pandemi began. People are ordered to stay at home, and many are starving because of lack of food. Apart from social and economic victims, Chinese President Xi Jinping remains committed to the Covid Zero approach, making the country even more isolated.

The city has recently seen seven consecutive days without a local case that ended on August 11 with rebounds into seven infections.