In one of the quarantine units in Shanghaithe inhabitants found positive in Covid-19 are lying on Gray rollaway campaign beds less than one meter apart, with their suitcases and other personal items lying next to them.
In a video, given to Reuters today by a man who lives in these facilities, they are shown more than 100 people are crammed into the floor of an office buildingone of dozens of places the city has turned into quarantine centers in a battle to stem the spread of the Omicron variant.
«This center is so crowded, people are less than a meter apartSaid the woman, who is over 60 years old and who took the video she gave to Reuters.
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The woman, who declined to be named, said there were at least 200 people in the unit, including young children, sharing four toilets. There are no showers and for breakfast they give them plain bread, she said.
“How is that okay?” He said.
The video shows these people spending their time playing games on their mobile phones or chatting.
Based on the Chinese policy of ‘zero tolerance’ in COVID, Anyone who is positive should be quarantined in specific areas.
Shanghai strengthens this policy, turning schools, newly built apartment complexes and exhibition halls into quarantine centersthe largest of which can accommodate 50,000 people.
Authorities said last week they had set up more than 60 such facilities.
However, they have not given details about the numbers of people quarantined but the city has recorded more than 280,000 COVID infections since March.
While the state media show hospitals with just two or three patients per roomthe people who have been sent to the Shanghai Exhibition Centers are side by side with thousands of others, without partitions or showers and with the ceiling lights on 24 hours a day.
To get out of quarantine, citizens must have two negative PCR tests.
The woman who gave the video stated that she moved there from a hotel unit in better conditions, where she stayed for about 20 days.
While he was there, he was found negative in the test he underwent but now he is afraid that he may get stuck again.
«There are people here who are positive, who cough and have a fever – how can you put the positives and the negatives together?“, asked.
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