Health officials attempted to blockade an IKEA store in Shanghai after a customer had been in close contact with a positive Covid case.
上海徐汇宜家要禁止出入配合流行病学调查，吓得顾客赶快逃亡。在病毒被消灭之前不要在中国逛商场，切记。 pic.twitter.com/dAWbpbln7v
— 方舟子 (@fangshimin) August 14, 2022
A sudden lockdown at an Ikea store in Shanghai over the weekend unleashed a chaotic scene, as masked shoppers scrambled for the exits, amid an effort to quarantine those in the store after authorities learned that several customers had been exposed to the coronavirus.
Videos of the rush spread widely on social media, in part because they highlighted the growing gulf between China, where officials enforce a strict “zero covid” policy through mass testing and rapid lockdowns, and many other parts of the world, where business has resumed as usual, even as coronavirus cases remain high.
