Shanghai Disneyland 'locks panicked guests inside the park' after new Covid outbreak

The closure marks the latest disruption for Shanghai Disney Resort, which was closed for more than three months during Shanghai's lockdown earlier this year

People wearing face masks visit the Shanghai Disney Resort (

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Disneyland Shanghai has been locked down again, preventing thousands of people from leaving the Magic Kingdom after an outbreak of coronavirus.

Visitors would have been asked to stay inside the complex until they were able to provide a negative Covid test.

Video footage posted to Chinese social media giant Weibo shows panicked guests rushing to the park gates to escape, only to find them locked in.

Around 60,000 visitors enter the park every day - but when 10 locally transmitted coronavirus cases were reported in Shanghai yesterday, the park was closed, although all of the cases were people without symptoms.

A spokesperson for Shanghai Disney Resort said the resort is still offering "limited offers" and is following measures in line with guidelines from Chinese health authorities.

Anyone who has visited the park since October 27 will now be required to test for Covid three times in three days.

This closure marks the latest disruption for Shanghai Disney Resort, which was closed for more than three months during Shanghai's lockdown earlier this year.

The station had said on Saturday that it had started operating with a reduced staff to comply with COVID measures.

This photo taken on October 31, 2021 shows medical staff preparing to test visitors for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Disneyland in Shanghai after a single case of the coronavirus was detected (

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Last year the park was also closed for two days in November with m...