One video taken inside an Ikea in Shanghai, China on Saturday appears to show panicked shoppers rushing for the exits and pushing their way through throngs of security guards when it was announced that a flash COVID-19 lockdown was about to commence. The video seemed to depict a chaotic scene as desperate shoppers crammed through an exit, trying to avoid being trapped inside.
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