Shanghai Ikea customers try to escape from store to avoid COVID-19 lockdown

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Shanghai Ikea customers try to escape from store to avoid COVID-19 lockdown
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Health authorities try to lock down customers at a Chinese Ikea store over an 'abnormal' coronavirus test result as dozens of people flee.

Just two possible COVID-19 cases have sparked chaotic scenes in Shanghai, with crowds of people seen running out of a building and an Ikea store, trying to escape a lockdown under China's strict coronavirus rules.Authorities tried to lock people in a Shanghai building and Ikea store over COVID-19 concernsChina has recently reported an increase in coronavirus cases

Videos widely shared on social media and verified by AFP news agency showed a small group of PPE-clad personnel trying to keep the main doors of a Shanghai building closed on Friday, after a worker there was identified as a close contact of a COVID case.

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