Expo 2024 Chengdu Lockdown. The southwestern city of chengdu, with 21 million people, is now under lockdown, and many more people around the country are under some form of restriction. China has locked down chengdu, one of its biggest and most economically important cities, as it turns once again to its covid strategy of restricting people’s movements to stop outbreaks.
Chengdu extended a lockdown for a majority of its more than 21 million residents to prevent further transmission of covid while millions more in other parts of china were told to shun holiday. China’s mega city of chengdu has extended its covid lockdown for a second time, with no end in sight as authorities struggle to eradicate an outbreak that is.