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Series of metal boxes to accommodate suspected COVID-19 patients, lines of buses taking people to quarantine camps were seen in a set of social media clips from China. The sequences were among the several strict preventive measures the country is taking to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Take a look at the video:
Millions of chinese people are living in covid quarantine camps now!
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) January 9, 2022
2022/1/9 pic.twitter.com/wO1cekQhps
China has promulgated a number of stringent rules on its citizens under its "zero Covid" policy, putting millions under quarantine even as Beijing prepares to host Winter Olympics next month.
People are being compelled to live in these overfilled boxes with a bed and a toilet - for a period of two weeks or more - even if a single individual tests positive in their locality, as per Daily mail.
In many localities, inhabitants were informed just after midnight that they need to leave their houses and go to the quarantine facilities, it said.
Tianjin city
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) January 11, 2022
Authority is busy sending tens of thousands of people off to covid quarantine camps with hundreds of buses now.
Only one covid case found in your apartment building,all residents of your building will be sent off to covid quarantine camps.
2022/1/10 pic.twitter.com/q3LdHLGYb3
In china, inescapable track and trace apps mean close contacts are generally identified and isolated swiftly.
Approximately 20 million people are now confined to their houses in China and are prohibited from leaving their home even to purchase food, as per the report.
This comes after the case of a pregnant Chinese woman miscarrying after a strict lockdown hindered her access to medical treatment. The episode rekindled contention over China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID.
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First published: 13 January 2022, 14:06 IST