Residents will be required to stay home and deliveries will be left at checkpoints to ensure there is no contact with the outside world.
Already, many communities within the city of 26 million have been locked down, with their residents required to submit to multiple tests for COVID-19. And Shanghai's Disney theme park is among the businesses that closed earlier.
China has reported more than 56,000 infections nationwide this month, with a surge in the northeastern province of Jilin accounting for most of them.
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