Shanghai turns residences into Covid-19 isolation facilities, sparking protest

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SHANGHAI - Shanghai is converting residential buildings into quarantine centres to house a mounting number of Covid-19 cases, but the move is sparking anger and protest from neighbours worried they a

re being put at increased risk of infection.

"It's not that I don't want to cooperate with the country, but how would you feel if you live in a building where the blocks are only 10 metres apart, everyone has tested negative, and these people are allowed in?" said the woman who was filming and did not disclose her real name. It said it had moved 39 rental tenants to rooms in other parts of the compound and had offered them compensation.

A resident at the compound, which is close to the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park complex housing firms including GlaxoSmithKline and Hewlett-Packard, confirmed they were notified on Tuesday that residents were asked to move out. Under China's zero-Covid policy, everyone who tests positive must quarantine at designated sites and the neighbours are asked to isolate in their homes for 14 days, which has stoked public fear about the consequences of catching the virus.

 

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