Covid-19 in China: thousands of Beijingers in forced quarantine

Photo taken outside a residential complex, following confirmed cases of COVID-19, in Beijing, May 21, 2022. REUTERS - THOMAS SUEN

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After Shanghai, drastically confined for almost two months, will Beijing in turn undergo confinement?

The Chinese capital has been under restrictions for almost a month, transport is reduced and residents are asked to work remotely.

Last night, 13,000 residents of a residence in southern Beijing were sent to solitary confinement in hotels after 26 cases were found at the residence.

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With our correspondent in Shanghai

,

Leo Cirah

Residents were warned in the evening: “ 

Experts have decided that all residents of Nanxinyuan will be subject to a 7-day quarantine, starting at midnight 

”.

In question, the discovery of 26 cases in their residence of 13,000 people, located southeast of Beijing. 

Those who protest are told that they risk legal consequences.

On social networks, many photos and videos show hundreds of people in single file with their suitcases.

Buses are ready to send them to quarantine centers. 

Residents complain about this forced isolation when they are negative, and worry about their business when all apartments must be disinfected while they are away.

Disinfection is the latest obsession in China.

While

“zero Covid”

is increasingly strict in the face of more contagious variants

These measures are well known to the inhabitants of

Shanghai

who have been subjected to it for two months, and this is precisely what worries the inhabitants of Beijing: as the days go by, the restrictions are reinforced.

There is reason to fear that the capital will also end up being confined.

Also read Covid-19 in China: Beijing students express their dissatisfaction

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