Robots and cameras: China's sci-fi quarantine watch

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China's methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked like a sci-fi dystopia for legions of people.

Robots delivering meals, ghostly figures in hazmat suits and cameras pointed at front doors: China's methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked like a sci-fi dystopia for legions of people.

Beijing loosened the rule in the capital this week -- except for those arriving from abroad and Hubei, the province where the virus first surfaced late last year. The robot rides the elevator and navigates hallways on its own to minimise contact between guests and human staff. Officials put up a notice on each quarantined household's door asking neighbours to keep an eye on the confined inhabitants.

"Apart from the camera I do believe that the guards and the cleaner on the compound would denunciate me if I were to go out," Boege said.

 

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