Workers make beds at a 17-storey office building to convert it into a makeshift hospital for the coronavirus disease , in Shanghai, China April 12, 2022.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 are 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.
Workers turned up on Thursday afternoon and police arrived shortly after, said the resident who witnessed the scene. She declined to be named as the situation was sensitive. Shanghai has become the epicentre of China's largest outbreak since the virus was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019, recording more than 300,000 COVID infections since March.