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China sticks with zero-COVID as quarantine video causes outrage
The video that purportedly shows a seriously ill 16-year-old female being ignored at a quarantine centre has gone viral.
20 Oct 2022
China has intensified COVID-19 surveillance in Beijing amid a recent spike in cases while a video of what is reported to be a seriously ill teenager being ignored by medical staff at a COVID quarantine centre has caused public outrage at China’s draconian pandemic response.
Beijing, a city of 21 million people, reported 18 new, locally-transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total number for the past 10 days to 197 – four times more than the 49 infections in the previous 10-day period.
The numbers may be minuscule compared with other countries, but China’s zero-COVID policy demands strict measures.
Beijing’s health authority said risky individuals and locations would be screened and residential compounds with suspected cases have been put under three-day lockdowns, with extensions possible if new infections emerge. Such measures are necessary to “ensure that no one is overlooked”, health authorities said.
However, a video shared on social media this week of Chinese health officials apparently overlooking a critically ill teenager at a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Henan province has received hundreds of thousands of comments and angry calls for a full investigation.
Patrick Fok, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beijing, said there has been no mention of the video in China’s tightly-controlled media, but the “distressing video”, reportedly of a 16-year-old female, is being widely shared online in China.
The video purportedly shows the ill teenager convulsing in a bed at a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Ruzhou, Henan, and a woman who claims to be the girl’s aunt saying that no medical help had been forthcoming to help her niece. The teenager later died at the centre, according to a media report...
China sticks with zero-COVID as quarantine video causes outrage
The video that purportedly shows a seriously ill 16-year-old female being ignored at a quarantine centre has gone viral.
20 Oct 2022
China has intensified COVID-19 surveillance in Beijing amid a recent spike in cases while a video of what is reported to be a seriously ill teenager being ignored by medical staff at a COVID quarantine centre has caused public outrage at China’s draconian pandemic response.
Beijing, a city of 21 million people, reported 18 new, locally-transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total number for the past 10 days to 197 – four times more than the 49 infections in the previous 10-day period.
The numbers may be minuscule compared with other countries, but China’s zero-COVID policy demands strict measures.
Beijing’s health authority said risky individuals and locations would be screened and residential compounds with suspected cases have been put under three-day lockdowns, with extensions possible if new infections emerge. Such measures are necessary to “ensure that no one is overlooked”, health authorities said.
However, a video shared on social media this week of Chinese health officials apparently overlooking a critically ill teenager at a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Henan province has received hundreds of thousands of comments and angry calls for a full investigation.
Patrick Fok, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beijing, said there has been no mention of the video in China’s tightly-controlled media, but the “distressing video”, reportedly of a 16-year-old female, is being widely shared online in China.
The video purportedly shows the ill teenager convulsing in a bed at a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Ruzhou, Henan, and a woman who claims to be the girl’s aunt saying that no medical help had been forthcoming to help her niece. The teenager later died at the centre, according to a media report...
