Shanghai Disneyland has shut down for at least two days after a weekend visitor tested positive for Covid-19 after returning home.

The Chinese theme park was closed yesterday, and will remain so today (Tuesday 2), with all visitors and staff being tested. Health workers in protective suits examined them as fireworks went off around the park's landmark castle.

China hopes to reach zero infections before it hosts the Winter Olympics, which begin in February. The country, where the virus was first highlighted, officially had 92 new cases on Monday.

A person who visited the Disneyland theme park in Shanghai on Saturday tested positive for the virus after returning to a nearby region, Chinese state media report. Visitors had to wait hours for testing – officials say they all tested negative - before they could leave the park on Sunday evening, as Disney entertainment continued around them.

China has recorded 4,849 deaths from Covid and 109,666 cases of infection since the virus was first detected in 2019 in the city of Wuhan. Covid-19 has now killed more than five million people worldwide, with nearly 247 million infected.

The Winter Games will be held in Beijing and towns in neighbouring Hebei province, on 4-20 February.