Shanghai residents question human cost of China's COVID quarantines

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Everyone testing positive must quarantine in specialized isolation sites, whether they show symptoms or not.

Shanghai has become a test case for the country’s strict policy. Home quarantine is not an option and, until public outrage prompted a change, Shanghai was separating COVID-positive children from their parents.

Asked for comment, the Shanghai government sent a local media report with a first-person account of life at one of the quarantine centres. The unidentified author said he wanted to dispel fears that such sites were terrible, saying he received ample meals and medicine but recommending people bring earplugs and eye masks.

She had not caught COVID, he said, citing test records he saw on China’s health app. After weeks of little communication, staff rang to say Shen had died from a chest infection.Article content

 

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