Watch: Shoppers rush for exits as Shanghai Ikea goes into lockdown

A sudden lockdown at an Ikea store in Shanghai over the weekend unleashed a chaotic scene after city health authorities ordered the store to lock down after a close contact of a Covid-19 case was traced to the location.

Videos on social media showed customers yelling and pushing each other in an attempt to escape the building before the doors closed.

In a statement released, the Shanghai Health Commission said a 6-year-old boy tested positive for the coronavirus and was in close contact with multiple people who went to Ikea in the city’s Xuhui district

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On Monday, the city of 25 million recorded six positive coronavirus cases, five of which were asymptomatic. More than 400 close contacts to the 6-year-old boy were identified; 80,000 people loosely connected to the child were ordered to take PCR tests.

Shanghai, China's financial capital has followed a 'zero-covid' policy which has led to rapid and prolonged lockdowns.