China Locks Down 1.6 Million People After Finding 1 Case of COVID-19

A health worker takes a swab sample from a man to test for COVID-19 in the Jing'an district of Shanghai, China on July 31, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Yongcheng city in central Henan Province went under lockdown on Monday after one local was diagnosed with COVID-19 the day before.

As part of the lockdown, City authorities ordered all the 1.6 million residents must take at least one nucleic acid test from Monday to Wednesday and that only one person per household was allowed to leave home daily to run errands.