COVID patients feel like ‘animals’ in Shanghai where fences restrain sick residents

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COVID patients feel like ‘animals’ in Shanghai where fences restrain sick residents

By Ben Kesslen
April 24, 2022

Shanghai authorities erected high fences outside the homes of residents who tested positive for COVID-19 this week, prompting outcry on social media that people were being treated like animals amid the city’s harsh lockdowns.

Images and videos of workers in hazmat suits fencing off buildings with 6-foot-tall green metal bars made the rounds on the Chinese social-media site Weibo, where users also complained the structures were fire-safety hazards.

“This is so disrespectful of the rights of the people inside, using metal barriers to enclose them like domestic animals,” a person said.

Many of the metropolis’s 25 million residents have been shut in as China doubles down on its “zero COVID” policy. Nearly 40 people died of the virus in Shanghai on Saturday, the city’s highest numbers since it imposed its lockdown amid the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/24/china-fences-off-homes-of-covid-infected-shanghai-residents/