More than 30,000 people were locked inside Shanghai Disneyland for several hours after one person tested positive for COVID-19.
On Sunday, the Chinese government officials locked 30,000+ people in the theme park after one woman reportedly tested positive for covid. Deadline reports, the woman may have either come into contact with someone who had COVID-19 or tested positive with the virus later on, on Saturday. AP reports “all 33,863 people who had been at the park” didn’t catch the Coronavirus.
The incident has led to the park being closed from Monday and Tuesday. Shanghai Disney told the Wall Street Journal that “it would refund tickets and notify guests as soon as there was a confirmed date for resumption of activities.”
The Chinese government has been taking extra precautions to ward off the sometimes deadly virus. Deadline reports Shanghai Disneyland requires all guests to quarantine for three weeks before going to the park. And those who were in the hospital must stay quarantined for another two weeks after recovery. WSJ says the park has been holding ships at their ports until all crew members have been tested.
While the measures may be extreme, they do seem to be working. So far, the country, which has a population of over a billion people, has only recorded 48 cases of COVID-19. Meanwhile, Disneyland in California, a state that has about 40 million residents, has recorded more than 6,000 cases over the weekend, the news outlet reports.
