The Disney Resort in Shanghai closed on Monday after the government tightened Covid restrictions, trapping domestic visitors as cases rise in China and patience amid continued processing and Beijing’s adamant zero-Covid is wearing thin. exhausting.
Shanghai Disney Resort, which Shanghai Disneyland and Disneytown grocery shopping and entertainment district, has announced its closure due to pandemic restrictions effective immediately.
The resort, which will remain closed until further notice, said it will notify visitors of the reopening date shown and that visitors can get tickets refunded or exchanged for a new date within six months of the date. new opening.
City officials are said to have closed the hotel and are preventing visitors from leaving until they provide a negative Covid test, according to Reuters.
The strategy is emblematic of Beijing’s zero tolerance for coronavirus and the outage is the latest to hit Disney’s beleaguered Shanghai resort, which has been closed for more than 3 months this year due to pandemic restrictions and where more than 30,000 visitors were locked inside last time. November after a guest tested positive for Covid.
The closure of Shanghai Disneyland is the lacheck example of the disruption of the ongoing pandemic in China as the government’s war to stamp out emerging infections. China reported 2,675 new local instances on Sunday, up from 1,873 the day before, the biggest jump since early August. On Sunday, China averaged 1,412 times a day for the past week. This figure is on the rise and was only noticed beyond surges in March, August and a few weeks ago in mid-October, though it is a long way from the pandemic peak of almost 26,500 in March. Millions of other people in Shanghai, which was subject to months of abrupt lockdown beyond this year, were confined to their homes and ordered to take Covid tests. Similar lockdowns have been put in place in dozens of cities across the country, adding parts of Beijing, the production hub of Zhengzhou and Wuhan, where the virus first became known 3 years ago. The strict technique, which involves specifically confining residents, visitors and staff to voice positions pending test results, has begun to influence locals with many reports or videos of others fleeing impending closures. This includes dramatic footage of shoppers looking to escape an Ikea to avoid lockdown and staff fleeing restrictions at Foxconn’s large iPhone factory. Beijing’s rigid technique is also to strike fear into big companies, adding US giants Apple and Tesla, as disruptions have an effect on global supply chains.
2. 9 million. This is the number of Covid cases shown in China since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. Just over 16,000 more people died from the disease during the same period. Although China has fared much better than other countries such as the US, UK and all of Europe, its very low official figures have caused many to question the veracity of the information from Beijing. Official statistics from people and critics fail to capture the true extent of its outbreaks. The country has a habit of manipulating the books to serve the purposes of its rulers when it comes to reporting official figures.
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