The Disneyland park in Shanghai closed its doors on Sunday night, with about 34,000 people inside, prohibiting the exit and entry of visitors to the complex, after the park detected a positive case of coronavirus.
Shanghai city health workers and police officers
dressed head-to-toe in white protective suits
then entered and tested the crowd for COVID-19.
The person affected was a woman from the neighboring city of Hangzhou who had visited the park the day before, according to local media.
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A group of visitors prepare to undergo COVI-19 tests at Shanghai Disneyland, after the park closed due to a single case of coronavirus.STR / AFP via Getty Images
What happened at Disneyland is yet another example of China's zero tolerance strategy to combat the pandemic.
The most populous nation in the world has promised to maintain its strict contagion control rules despite criticism from business groups since it already has a vaccination rate close to 80%.
Although all of Sunday's Disneyland visitors tested negative, they were ordered to isolate themselves for another 24 hours before a second test was conducted.
Meanwhile, the park and Disneytown, a complex of shops and restaurants, will be closed until at least Wednesday, Shanghai Disneyland said.
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China is taking strict measures of this type to contain the outbreaks of the coronavirus throughout the country, so measures of this type are not a big surprise at the local level.
On Saturday 48 domestic cases were registered in several provinces.
Although they are extremely low compared to the countries that are living with the virus, the infections have caused the closure of companies, the carrying out of massive tests in certain areas and restrictions on movement.
A Disney visitor who identified herself to The Associated Press news agency by her last name, Chen, said she was inside the park when she heard the announcement that she should take the test at 5:00 p.m., but had taken it naturally. .
"Nobody complained, and everyone was very well behaved," he said.
Chen commented that he has an annual subscription and visits the park at least once a month.
He was waiting in a hotel for his second COVID test before he could go back to Beijing.
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The city reported that
all 33,863 people who had visited the park over the weekend
had tested negative for COVID-19.
They would be asked to take tests again in the next two weeks and monitor their health.
The Disney theme park in Shanghai had reopened in May, after being closed for several months, as China tried to revive its economy.
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Strict quarantines and controls are part of the measures implemented by the authorities to eliminate local outbreaks.
The country has managed to keep its figures of 4,636 deaths and 97,243 reported cases relatively low since the start of the pandemic.
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Before last year's pandemic, Disney's parks division was a stable source of income in the country and had seen strong growth for part of the last decade.
With information from
The Associated Press
and
The Washington Post
.
