The Chinese government ordered a large part of Shanghai to shut down for a week in a two-phase lockdown as a surge of coronavirus cases sweeps through the city of 26 million, the Associated Press reports.
The financial district and neighborhoods around it will shut down from Monday through Friday, after which the large downtown area west of the Huangpu River will start its own five-day quarantine.
The city is also undertaking a massive testing and tracking program, with more than 3,500 new positive cases detected Sunday, although because the Chinese criteria for categorizing a positive case involves active symptoms, the number of people infected is likely far greater.