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Some districts have banned the online delivery of what they described as “non-daily necessities,” including tea, coffee, hotpot and barbeques. “Three days, three days and another three days, when can the lockdown end?” a Chengdu resident wrote on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.

Mass testing will continue daily, and the city aims to eliminate community infections within a week.Īuthorities did not reveal when the lockdown will end, saying only that the restrictions would be “dynamically adjusted based on the development of the epidemic and the need of (Covid) prevention and control.”Ĭhengdu reported 116 infections for Wednesday, bring its total caseload to nearly 1,800 over the past month – a substantial outbreak by the standards of China’s zero-Covid strategy. Late on Wednesday night, authorities announced that lockdown measures would be extended yet again in most districts, covering 16 million people. FCHNA/FeatureChina/APĬhinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents

Residents line up for Covid-19 tests in Chengdu city in southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday.