The city of Shanghai, confined for two months last spring to protect itself against Covid-19, still seems traumatized by this episode. Two videos have surfaced online showing shoppers escaping shopping malls after contact cases were discovered. In China, two and a half years after the start of the pandemic, the Covid-19 is still acting up.
In a video published on Saturday August 13, dozens of customers try to extricate themselves from an Ikea store in Shanghai. In front of them, a handful of policemen are trying somehow to block them. But nothing to do, the desire for freedom is the strongest.
A few moments earlier, the Swedish brand announced that a contact case had been found in the store, synonymous with future confinement in China of “Zero Covid”.
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。在病毒被消灭之前對学要在丛农將 pic.twitter.com/dAWbpbln7v
— 方舟子 (@fangshimin) August 14, 2022
A six-year-old child is at the origin of the focus of contamination. The authorities have already identified 400 contact cases. 80,000 people have been ordered to perform a PCR test. For its part, the Ikea store closed its doors, and customers present that day must isolate themselves for 48 hours before following a five-day observation period.
The day before, another sequence with a similar scenario spread on Chinese social networks. There too, frightened customers force barriers placed in front of a shopping center, suspected of having been visited by an infected person.
These two videos were both shot in Shanghai, the economic capital still traumatized by a two-month confinement in the spring. A confinement which had caused the cold anger of 25 million inhabitants.
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