Posted on social networks, videos highlight the appalling treatment reserved for patients with Covid-19 in the country where it was born: China.
While on January 10, China announced the confinement of the cities of Anyang and Yuzhou, bringing the number of Chinese confined to 20 million to prevent the new Omicron variant, the treatment reserved for people infected with the virus in China is causing concern. more and more concern on social networks. Recently posted online by locals, videos attest to the existence of “quarantine camps” in which the sick are locked in small metal boxes equipped with a simple wooden cabinet. Some remain confined there for up to 2 weeks without leaving, fed by men in Hazmat suits.
Shocked by the living conditions imposed on them, residents of Anyang city confided in the columns of the BBC. They say they were warned on the 1er last January of their transfer to a “quarantine camp”. A witness affirms to have seen more than 30 buses arrive and another ensures that a thousand people, approximately, would have been transferred. “They made a big transfer, more than a thousand people overnight, and many of us are old people and children, explains a resident of the camp. Nothing was organized so they placed us carelessly. There’s nothing here, just the bare minimum… No one comes to check on how we’re doing, so what kind of quarantine is this?” On the Chinese social platform Weibo, many Internet users shared their concern and their incomprehension at the treatment inflicted on those transferred, who could very well continue to confine themselves to their homes.
A man beaten for going to get food
In the cities of Xi’an, Anyang and Yuzhou, 20 million Chinese are currently confined to the country. While they were initially allowed to go out to buy food, a recent announcement by authorities now prohibits Xi’an residents from leaving their homes except to get tested. A video recently posted on social media shows a man being beaten by authorities for going out to buy a stuffed bun. An increasingly dystopian reality in a country that continues to believe in the zero Covid strategy…
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A quarantine camp in China
“Quarantine camps” have been set up in China.
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A quarantine camp in China
The sick are locked in small metal boxes equipped with a simple wooden cabinet.
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A quarantine camp in China
“There is nothing here, just the bare minimum… Nobody comes to check how we are doing, what kind of quarantine is this?”, confides a resident of a Chinese quarantine camp.
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A quarantine camp in China
Some remain confined for up to 2 weeks without leaving, fed by men in hazmat suits.
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A man was beaten while going to buy a stuffed bread
A video recently posted on social media shows a man being beaten by authorities for going out to buy a stuffed bun.
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In China, “quarantine camps” have appeared
Residents of “quarantine camps” are fed by men in hazmat suits.
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A screening test
While they were initially allowed to go out to buy food, a recent announcement by authorities now prohibits Xi’an residents from leaving their homes except to get tested.