How many quarantine camps is China building?
They are nothing new but, with the increase in cases, the quarantine camps in China are multiplying. Here are the videos that show how many there are and the inhuman conditions in which the people who are locked up are treated as if they were prisoners
In some large cities in China, time seems to have stopped in December 2019, when the first case of coronavirus was identified in Wuhan. Since then the government has always applied a zero tolerance policy and, in recent days, following a slight easing of restrictive measures, the curve has risen again which raises fears of a major epidemic, for which the country is not prepared .
So then the quarantine camps sprout like mushrooms where to lock up not only the positives but also those who have come into contact with them.
COLLAPSING HOSPITALS
Hospitals are collapsing. On Nov. 17, Chinese health officials announced plans to convert 10 percent of hospital beds to intensive care unit beds, as well as a plan to boost vaccination rates among the elderly.
But these projects, the British newspaper points out, require time and resources. China currently has fewer than 4 intensive care beds for every 100,000 people. The United States has over 30.
THE QUARANTINE FIELDS
To remedy the problem, the government is therefore building new quarantine camps in record time. Currently, according to the Financial Times , more than 1 million people live in these centres, where the light is always on 24 hours a day.
A Business Today video shows the inhumane conditions in which they are kept. Even children – separated from their parents – are helpless prisoners of the zero Covid policy:
And Reuters says the city of Guangzhou, where there have recently been clashes over anti-Covid measures, is setting up makeshift hospitals and quarantine camps with a capacity of nearly 250,000 beds.
PROHIBITED TO OPPOSE
In recent days, hundreds of thousands of Beijingers across the city's 16 boroughs have been trapped in their homes as city officials quarantined residents of buildings where positives were found.
People then started organizing on WeChat to support and protect themselves among their neighbors by deciding to self-isolate at home, but as soon as the news started to spread censorship arrived and the authorities took away all the infected in makeshift camps scattered around the city , which usually, writes the FT , consist of rows of cots set up inside gyms or conference centres.
REQUESTS FOR HELP
Requests for help are also on the rise. On Twitter, for example, the Songpinganq account posted a video denouncing that the Chinese government is building hundreds of quarantine camps. What you see in the last video was designed to detain 48,000 people.
The largest quarantine camp in China's Guangzhou city is being built.
It has 90,000 isolation pods. pic.twitter.com/7VdAJpki5q— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 27, 2022
And just a few posts earlier it showed the one under construction in Guangzhou, which involves 90,000 isolation capsules.
But these are just two of the videos that crowd the account and the Chinese government doesn't seem willing to change its attitude because, as the author points out in each post, the authorities just need to flip a switch to change the color of people's 'Covid passports' and decide to lock them up.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/quanti-campi-di-quarantena-sta-costruendo-la-cina/ on Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:13:00 +0000.