Shanghai Disney Resort on Oct. 31 abruptly shut down to comply with pandemic prevention requirements, underscoring the disruptions business face as the regime vows to stamp out new infections.
Guests are ordered to stay inside the theme park to take a coronavirus test and wait for a negative result to exit the gate, according to a notice from Shanghai authorities.
The scene evoked the memories of the snap lockdown from Halloween 2021 when more than 30,000 visitors were trapped inside the Disney Resort after a confirmed infection was found to have visited the theme park.
“History repeated itself. On the same day last year, [we] were undergoing a nucleic acid test when fireworks lit up the night sky above,” a user wrote on the microblogging platform Weibo….