China’s Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, and a dozen other provinces ordered residents to self-report if they have visited cities where eight newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients have been in the past 10 days. In Shaanxi’s Xi’an city, where seven of the eight patients were diagnosed, the city government closed tourist sites, locked down several neighborhoods, tested over 30,000 people within hours after the new diagnosis, and will test all residents in the following days. The lockdown and testing stirred up panic threw society into chaos. “All venues that they [the diagnosed patients] have visited [in Xi’an] are closed now. All of us, the residents who live near the venues, started to be tested [on Monday],” Wen Bing (pseudonym), a resident close to a restaurant the diagnosed patients had visited, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on Oct. 18. A store owner who doesn’t want to expose his name complained in the …