In Shanghai, China, where city lockdown has been going on for more than a month, a welfare facility mistakenly put a living elderly person in a transport bag.



Recently, a welfare center in Shanghai confirmed that an elderly person who was mistaken for dead was still alive while putting it in a transport bag to transport it to the funeral home, but belatedly confirmed that the old man was alive, Beijing Ilbo reported.



The old man was taken to a hospital and is being treated, the newspaper said.



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When a video of the situation was released online, causing outrage, the Shanghai authorities also stepped in.



The director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Putuo District in Shanghai was charged with violating Party discipline, and some civil affairs officials working-level officials were dismissed from office, China Central Television (CCTV) reported.



In addition, the doctor in charge who was involved in erroneously determining that the elderly was dead had his doctor's license revoked, and the welfare facility was subject to administrative action.



At the same time, a comment by a citizen commentator is making waves online in Shanghai, China, where city lockdown has been going on for more than a month, and that distrust of neighbors and institutions has prevailed.



New Pi Mingming, a citizen of Shanghai, posted on Weibo on social media on the 1st, "In the early days of the lockdown, in Shanghai, if you are infected with Corona 19, you apologize for 'caused trouble to your neighbors,' and the residents are encouraging them to 'get good treatment'. A warm atmosphere was created,” he wrote.



He continued, "After a month, we resent each other and swear at each other over trivial things," he said.



It is that residents who only prepared a small amount of food believing only the words of the authorities that the lockdown was only for five days came to believe only in a full refrigerator instead of the news.



Trust in human society is divided into 'personal trust' in neighbors, etc. and 'systemic trust' in the government and group media, and he pointed out that both of these trusts are collapsing in Shanghai now.



He said, "The 'zero corona' policy, which locks down the entire apartment complex even if there is only one infected person, caused me to fall into a psychological panic and view my neighbors as harmful," he said. .



"Everyone is trapped in chains of doubt as if Pandora's box has been opened," he said. pinched.



His article received attention as it rose to the top of Weibo search terms on the 1st.