Residents in the Pudong New Area, now under lockdown due to the surging number of local COVID-19 cases, are prohibited from going to public areas despite taking nucleic acid tests, the district government said in a notification released on Tuesday.According to the notification, from 5am on March 28 until 5am on April 1, all residential communities in Pudong are under "\\;closed-loop management"\\;, under which people can only enter but not exit the area. As such, all residents except special groups like medics, police officers and deliverymen must stay at home – and even these special groups must have permits issued by authorities.People are only allowed to leave their homes for nucleic acid testing at designated sites at specified times.