Chengdu Lockdown Chengdu: In an effort to curb the further expansion of an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese city of Chengdu on Thursday extended a lockdown for a majority of its more than 21 million residents.
Chengdu, the capital of southwestern Sichuan province, was locked down on September 1, becoming the largest Chinese metropolis to come to a standstill since Shanghai's painful two-month lockdown in the spring. The city is also a major production hub for Apple reports CNN.
The city authority also ordered a new round of mass testing.
Late on Wednesday night, authorities announced that lockdown measures would be extended yet again in most districts, covering 16 million people.
Mass testing will continue daily, and the city aims to eliminate community infections within a week.
Authorities 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."
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