Shanghai district orders mass Covid-19 testing and lockdown

A man wearing a face mask stands in an empty subway station next to the Universal Studios Beijing resort (AP)

China’s largest city, Shanghai, is ordering mass testing on all 1.3 million residents of its Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known.

The demand is an echo of measures ordered over the summer that led to a two-month lockdown of the entire city of 25 million that devastated the local economy, prompting food shortages and rare confrontations between residents and the authorities.