In this photo taken on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, medical workers disinfect rooms in the sanatorium after quarantine period has ended in Bogandinsky in the Tyumen region, about 2150 kilometers east of Moscow, Russia. 144 people who were evacuated from the epicenter of the CONVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, and were released from a 14-day quarantine in western Siberia. None of them tested positive for the virus.
A leaked email that the media reports said was sent by the state-owned transportation company Mosgortrans told dispatchers who took such calls to notify the police. The email, which the company immediately described on Twitter as fake, carried a one-word subject line: coronavirus. The effort to identify Chinese citizens on public transportation applies not only to buses, but underground trains and street trams in Moscow, Russian media reported Wednesday.
“Prevention of any serious virus, be it a flu or the new coronavirus, should involve a proper information campaign and not discrimination of other people,” said Alyona Popova, an activist engaged in a year-long court challenge of Moscow’s use of facial recognition technology. The Moscow Metro confirmed to The Associated Press that the underground system was “actively monitoring the stations” and has a protocol in place for dealing with people who “have recently returned from the People’s Republic of China.”
“So he saw a Chinese national, and then what?” Dashkov said. “How can he ascertain that he saw a Chinese national, or a Vietnamese national, or a Japanese, or Yakutia?” Mosgortrans referred additional questions to the detailed statement from Moscow’s mayor, who on Friday acknowledged the sharp focus on Chinese people in the city’s virus-control plan.
They have every right to do it on thier country. Get the he'll out of USSR with your virus...Dont need to hugh such dangerous outbreak.
Dear president or Minister of Great U.S.S.R. Indian ancestors followed a custom of burning crackers to kill virus, under name of Diwali festival. Please allow your people to celebrate or burnt crackers heavily to kill Khrona.
Plus that dude looks like weev
Moscow should have soft corner towards Chinese visitors.Instead of raids or facial recognition give them chance to come forward by themselves for screening with human love.The great country like Russia asks their scientists or Naturopathic doctors suggest for the cure from virus
hi tech employed to target Chinese, another token to symbolize traditional Sino-Russian friendship! Foreign ministry spokesperson will sing high praise for this latest Russian huntdown, while accuse Americans of spread fear & panic of outbreak and offer no significant assistance.
Why Russia hate Chinese?
That facial recognition must be fantastic
So Russia supporting Trump made AP afraid.
Zoonotic spread to humanity is not confined to Chinese ppl. It's here & the world has to work together in a coordinated way to find an antidote vaccine. Xenophobia is very unhelpful- but states should protect their own ppl by controlling border flows & isolating infected.
Yeah rather this compared to letting it spread. To bad lmfao
Good do it some more
Smart Russians
save_the_tweet please facialrecognition privacy
I am shaking.😫
This is horrible. I thought Russians and Chinese are good friends.🤕
Don’t lie... more than half the ppl that see a CHINESE person... is gonna first think about the Coronavirus ... I’m not racist tho! My question ... is this disease a plot by man or a plague by God? Worship the Lord
Every media report trying to make this about racism and xenophobia. If the person is told to self quarantine or if the person is lying about having symptoms then yes they should forcibly detain that person. In South Korea one person infected a whole religious group and they lied
That's because they are bringing it into other countries on purpose
AlL aSiAnS lOoK tHe SaMe
Any persons or nations using this failing Putin virus-control strategy will fail. Not smart or strategic at all.
Wouldn’t it be easier to close your border to China or anyone coming thru China?
This is terrible! Makes me angry and so suspicious- the disease as a kind of biochemical false flag to control and dominate.
But in America we got called out for not sitting near people who we don't know and covering our face so many left out before the boarder shut down they all over the world not getting checked out or tested out of fear while spreading it.
Lol 😂 trying to facial recognize a germ lmao 🤣
Good....this strategy must be implemented in India too.we dnt want these cockroaches spreading viruses eveywhr
This is just sad.... I understand being causious but are we really going to think all Asians are infected? The virus knows no race! Any one can have it!!!
JillEHughes JillEHughes the guy in the first photo looks an awful lot like weev
Another example where word-smithing the title may have helped DARIA LITVINOVA and FRANCESCA EBEL. “Russia utilizing facial recognition technology to reduce spreading corona virus” Or Is the AssociatedPress going rogue and fake for their narratives & agendas?
Since facial recognition is the thing. Let's discuss the 2way mirrors secret
Don’t worry the virus doesn’t discriminate soon everyone will have it.
It’s what commies do!
The funny thing is, this facial recognition technology that can accurately identify any Chinese from crowds was made by Huawei, the notorious Chinese spy Telecommunications company!
Home from home then.....
Let’s hope Putin gets a good dose of the Virus
People need to chill....this is just if they are Chinese Nationals. Nothing to worry or see here. Move along!
Chinese government is so racialist. No a time for their people for being treated in the same. I don't blame the people, but the government.
Great to hear that at least one country is doing something that makes sense. Good job Russia.
The World Health Organization & drs warn this virus is extremely contagious & often deadly. They say we need to be very cautious lest it becomes pandemic. Being 'politically correct' may not be viable now. Other countries using quarantines, quarantine for 14 days, not forever.
Russia has no Bill of Rights or Constitution like the US protecting individual rights. Is this really new information to the Associated Press?
They have a lot of experience in torturing civilians and pogroms (NKVD, KGB, GRU, Putin)
Fantastic
An absurd, ridiculous headline written by some Western twit. I am fairly certain that Russia is not too concerned about being accused of racial profiling, or other human rights abuses.
Hua_ChunYing what do you to say
meanwhile, CCPChina propaganda GlobalTime worries a few countries might react A BIT SLOW to prevent outbreak, CHINA experience in CONTROLLING WuhanCoronavirus is worthy for other countries to study and learn!!!!
It's sad that sometimes the most effective measures are also the most racist ones. But they work!
olhowling_husky Wow, ahead creep-factor 9
This is exactly what Chinese did with ugyuars Muslims in China , maybe worse than this
At least Russians know what to do...
Deep State recognition
Karmas a b*!$
I would too. They only share a border sooooo.
That's racist - The Left probably.
Good for them
How is this a problem?
Good. Common sense prevails
Not as much as Beijing authorities are. China
_alex_joshua RealTedEdmonson 14thstreetblues
Hope to see Chinese students in Russia protest against this, just like what they did in Western countries, and let's see what happens
Different Kind of purge
How is this ok and nit racist ? The Coronavirus doesn’t distinguish race 🤦🏾♀️. I’m pretty sure that non-Chinese people could very well be carriers as well and would slip under the radar because of this focus on Chinese people 🙄
China is profiling a minority group and putting them in concentration camps and committing slave labor and reprogramming children to believe in Communism. Many are missing as well.
But nobody is calling Russia racist. 🤔
Well it's a dangerous disease started in China and spread to over 30 countries so ? In this case? Nobody knows who has it as the symptoms do not show up 14 days or later ?
Where is Bruce Willis when you need him
It's racist and extreme. Definitely better than the u.s. measures though. Which ate basically non-existent.
Drastic measures are called for,Personally I’d like my Government to act along these lines,before it’s too to the uk from China continue to land due to us being bound to EU immigration laws till the end of 2020.Act now !
drwaheeduddin Bernie's role models.
In 2009 H1N1, against WHO recommendation, China: - Placed all Mexican nationals in China under quarantine. - Cancelled direct flights to Mexico. - Stopped issuing visas to Mexicans. - Closed consulates in Mexico. China never admitted this was wrong, or apologized. 🤷♀️
Dark days are coming.
MalcolmNance Does facial recognition work well for Asians? It doesn't work so well for African-Americans.
This is not 🙅🏽♀️about Race or discrimination it's about disease prevention And it was said the coronavirus came from China🇨🇳🚷 so it is so order/ it is what it is. 🇷🇺Moscow is not discriminating they are in strategic 🙆♂️prevention and that should give America 🇺🇸an idea.
past three years,China did its best to wipe out Uighur people: detained 3 million,killed religious leaders, arrested intellectuals,harvested their organs,forced women to marry Han Chinese.demolished mosques.burnt Qurans. silent.China is most racist.they hate humans.wuhan virus
MalcolmNance The Sino-Russian border is 2600+ miles long, yet Russia thinks raiding internally is going to stop the Coronavirius? To compare, the US-Mexico border is just under 2000 miles, and how well are we doing at controlling crossings? Trade, crime and disease are all international.
MalcolmNance China needs help with Northern Border terrorists. Muslims need land to the north and west. We stress pragmatism about the East-Asian Muslims yearning for their own land in the border regions. North Korea will eye expansion. The time has come. Take back East Asia from Stalin.
Trump 2020
MalcolmNance Bus driver: “Some Asian-looking (people) have just got on. Probably Chinese. Should I call (the police)?”
nobody wants to say it, buy why is everyone acting like China deliberately spread this virus?
MalcolmNance Well it’s just a matter of time before trump does the same thing if we have an outbreak here.
Hope doesn't turn violent!
Haha good luck with that
Logic!!!
It’s russia - who cares - they have more problems than coronavirus
中国人监控中国人的技术被出口对付中国人，俄爹很有想象力
🤣🤣🤣🤣 they used their own GoogleAI tech against them. That’s rich.
This is karma,and karma is a bitch
We need to stay on top of these people. This virus could turn into the next plague if we all let our guard down on this. This could become serous for the whole world if we can’t get a handle on it. Maybe we all need to hear what to watch for again. This virus is killing too many!
KGB be like
Why on earth would people go to Russia anyway.
Get ready Rust Belt Always Trumpers...this red carpet you’ve rolled out to the Russian ASSet Trump in the WH will be ushering in Putin’s brand of hospitality to a town near you soon. TrumpIsARussianAsset RussianCollusion
It’s not racial profiling if it’s true. Liberals sensitivities plagues the world.
Well that’s pretty racist shit 😒
China does it, so .....
China better not complain that their nationals are getting targeted with facial recognition tech lmao
Smart..
RUSSIA DISTRACTION.METHOD IN FULL USE WITH CORONA.DIVERTS FROM ELECTIONS POLITICS HACKING MANIPULATING TRUMP SANDER S. IOWA NH NEVADA THEY FUCKED WITH BERNIE SAME EXACT SET UP. DT IN WH CRUSH HRC 3MIILLION MORE POPULAR VOTES THAN DT..SENATE VOTE NOT BLOCK INTERNET TO VM4HACKING .
unfortunately chinese nationals are not only targeted in russia China’s rural migrants are being blocked from cities, kicked out of apartments and rejected by companies as the authorities impose a “people’s war” to stem the spread of the coronavirus
Russians always know the right way to deal with Chinavirus
And of all the Russians visiting Thailand? Are they checking on them?
This is a Chinese playbook tactic, though.
Guaranteed Trump will not condemn this racist BS by Putin.
That's just freaking wrong
What has race to do with it now that it's spread in many many countries? are Chinese the only race suffering from Corona virus or are carrier of the virus?
Hope it wipes out the entire Kremlin, oligarchs, and Russian mob. Since Trump and GOP have no interest in stopping them.
This is not first time someone doing it for oppressing people, but first time to combat virus
this is just disgusting, beyond disgusting.. it's small minded, xenophobic, and truly the actions of a backward nation and they should be ashamed & appalled of their own nation.. it's the stuff of the medieval 'dark ages', next we'll see burning at the stake brought back ;-(
Russia requiring a visa for chinese travelers still baffles me. They grant visa free entry for many poor countries but not to their biggest tourist origin.
Some Chinese r proud of the measures China gov taken against WuhanCoronavirus n think other countries shd learn from 🇨🇳 I guess Russia just took that too seriously n really learn from their best fd 🇨🇳
After watching the videos of Chinese spitting on everything trying to spread the virus... I don’t blame them.
Just trying to make them feel at home?
俄爹父爱如山
It’s about safety
Virus does not discriminate. Now looks inevitable COVID19 will become global epidemic, strategies targeting Chinese or “Asian looking people” will go down in history as a failure of containing the disease.
So the Chinese nationals living/working in Russia just magically contracted coronavirus because they’re Chinese?
So basically they are targeting the Asian guy
In mother Russia.... u kn the rest. I think the China should limit traveling of its citizens.
Leave it to Russia to be the leader in any revolutionary idealogy. They are the beacon of everything that is good and successful. Take communism for instance! (Currently trying to come to a Whitehouse near you in the form of socialism.)
This is an outright form of crude & ugly racial affront on the Chinese living in Russia! It has stark similarities with how China itself had rounded up Mexicans in Chinese cities during the H1N1 crisis in 2009! It was a bad precedent set by China, now followed by its allies!
‘A new virus’?
RorateCaeli “a new virus” nice
The power of Coronavirus could kill millions but you can't start pulling people off buses All borders need to be closed to any country like China when the virus is out of control That includes our country If Congress says no president Trump needs to pull executive power
I feel like this is the beginning of an apocalypse movie
Russia has never been bright.
Why should we believe anything the Fake News tells us?
Finally a country getting it right !
This is like a plague inc headline
Yet they'll call me racist because I dont feel like eating chinese food today.
Russia is not a good country to stay. AI technology should be used to improve the life of human beings , but not for racial discriminations. Bad!
I don’t care what color or sex you are. if you’re sick stay the hell away from me
China getting a taste of its own medicine. They use facial recognition to round up all the Muslim Uyghurs, but cry out when it’s done to them? KARMA
Your reporting is accusing Russians for doing the right things! What kind of hypocrisy is this! Profiling of coronavirus carriers is NOT racist!
Racist ?
Quarantine Chinese who have visited China or Asia recently, even the past 6 months - YES. All Chinese - NO. And how they the heck they tell Chinese apart from ppl of other Asian countries? And the most horrible thing is not the news, it's the supporting comments here.
Or maybe just check flights and any entry of people’s from China.
That's a surprise! Not. Wicked how Asian people are being treated by the evil forces of ignorance.
So the Russians are using facial recognition to keep a virus from spreading but if the Americans used facial recognition it would simply be for racial profiling... The press is a bunch of rabid assholes
It's Russia,not surprised
Don't forget that the Chinese government/police are targeting 'Chinese nationals with raids and using facial recognition technology'.Have you not seeing dozens of videos of people being arrested and dragged away in China? Funny how there is always a double standard.
Gasp.
Be Kind to Other beings. 💚
GOOD
Nice
imnirajkk ahambrham vikasF22 murkyshadow FrankBullit67 So much for Russia and China love...⬆️
Genocide...Hitler tactics...fear
good keep the dogs and cats eaters out of Russia .. and Moskva coronavirus ChinaCoronaVirus xin_jinping is a huge virus by himself .. he keep abusing and torturing minoriries as Uyghurs and politicalprisoners .. he is like a dog now he can no longer bark 😂
I dont consider racial profiling. They are looking at risk parameters.
the UK super spreader is a Caucasian. HENLO!!!
Do you suppose countries hv to do what they hv to do to try & protect citizens w/out it hving anything to do w/ race? Anyone among us could be infected & we don’t know it. There have been travelers of all ethnicities visiting there. Grow up & stop being hung up on skin color!!
This is disturbing🤬 If they're usin facial recognition, thn track ANYBODY who've been in contact w/ A person who's been tested as confirmd w/ virus to save lives Targeting Chinese Nationals is a disgusting form of Racial Profiling & WILL NOT help nor prevent spread of Covid_19
That headline photo looks like a bad selfie. And the guy needs to be clean shaven to have a proper seal. Why is that the lead photo for this story? Need editing help? I'm available freelance. That was a 5-second review just looking at the article.
Oh my gosh. That's racist! This is the same Russian government that is supporting and aiding Bernie Sanders! Covid_19 FeelTheBern RussianInterference
Coming to a city near you. Brought to you by Trump and Company in USA/Russia. 😳😡
Ffs
Better way to say it. 'Russia using every measure possible to keep its people and infrastructure safe from virus that is causing other nations to halt in everything'
Lol hilarious that the majority of the world thought tech companies made these gadgets for our benefit. Smh 🤦♂️ taking the mark of the beast one by one.
No one cares if it’s racial profiling anymore. If this is an effective method in regards of controlling further disease spreading, so be it.
Take note people this is how we will be treated. Anyone accusing a communist of being racist will be considered silly. Only the government counts in a communist governed country.
Sad but this is exactly how china treats the Uighurs Muslims. Maybe this decease is from God to punish china for all their atrocities against Muslims?
Better safe than sorry.
Bold decision
realDonaldTrump do this in the states.
Who does the Russian government think they are? The Chinese government? Seewhatididthere? Uyghurs
The only sane nation in the world. No pc just common sense
Lord have mercy 🙏
Common sense. If you've been to China, you're a risk. Nothing against the Chinese people but the virus originated in China and hundreds of thousands are infected and they are being forced in isolation by their own government.
China would do the same if the virus orginated in Russia. India, Singpore & Hong Kong are tking similar measures to Russia. The fear of a nation will always win over its adherence to the construct of political correctness.
MisterAntiBully
I will do the same
Russian authorities don’t care if you’re offended neither are they aware of the associated press and/or writers opinions
JennieDuke and telling the difference between some Siberian people and chinese people is not easy by looks alone.
This virus was a man made, man released weapon. The rights & wrongs of everything we know from the lessons of History are being forgotten or ignored. Where are the United Nations, the EU, WHO? Every organisation proving ineffective in the real test of the CoronaVirus Management.
Someone should tell the “medical worker” in the picture that his beard makes his mask useless.
Is Putin racist?
Chinese authorities are targeting Chinese nationals with raids and facial recognition - so good, great prevention measures. Russians do it, it's racist. Okay.
Just wear a mask my Chinese friends.. Facial recognition is such BS.
Ironically, there are tons of Chinese citizens who are Russian.
Correction. It is South Korea, not China that also does this
Russia is a country friend of China. Russian authoritie ate trying to identify Chinese people,in order to test them. Russia as China is doing efforts, to stop the spread and transmission of COVID 19 virus. The US media utilise, all issues as a political weapon against China.
There’s a simple explanation for this: people have gone batshit crazy over this.
And I bet someone will call it racist. Sorry, buy if it saves lives don't care about your feelings. Seriously...those of you who care about people's feelings over a governments complete lack of transparency that has killed thousands are the worst sort of morons.
Very sad, the WHO SHOULD BE CHECKED OUT FOR NOT SAYING THE TRUTH AND PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK IF THIS CONTINUE WE DON'T NEED REBRANDING WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE AND BE ALLOWED TO TALK AND SAY THE TRUTH
To be honest, those Cossacks sound ignorant. Excluding Europeans from this virus when they have been going back and forth to China as well
Can you confirm if its true that Russia raided and quarantined the China Embassy in Moscow
How can FacialRecognition work if all Chinese look the same?
W
good idea
Coronavirus: so how are you gonna fight against me? The entire world: yes
My I am still trying to save everyone with abilities of PSI, and PK, I can help but America doesn't understnd PK, I need to help fix this by talking to President Bio, if you understand what is taking place I can help, but I need to talk to PresidentBio he is avoiding the truth
It would be advisable if they put out a general notice for all persons who have travelled to China and back and Chinese nationals in Russia to visit the nearest hospital to get checked for the virus. Sounds much more humane and would curb the hue and cry about racial profiling.
Good at least someone’s taking the right precautions. Should’ve nuked the bastards at the start now we got Chinese people walking around purposely spreading the virus and reselling used face masks nd shit. China’s negligence needs to be disciplined.
SAIMR 2.0 in action. Now with groovy new facial recognition cataloging.
Chinese racially profile black americans, and used russia as a cover for it's crimes against humanity, so I feel nothing.
老大哥对小弟从来最狠，然后小弟调头怪美帝。
Well, you know ... Russians will be Russians. Bless their xenophobic hearts 💕. 🤨
When something like coronavirus happens all the rules that will you know are off the table racial profiling has been going on for years
Whatever you got to do! chinasbioweapon
Did any of you losers actually read the article 'They also authorized the use of facial recognition technology to find those suspected of evading a 14-day self-quarantine period upon their arrival in Russia.'🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Good luck expecting Russia to care about racial profiling
MattMapMaker
Good! So it should be.
'resurfacing'? Ummmm it never has gone away so.....
Well this has escalated.
It is better to profile and quarantine rather than inadvertently spread the CVID-19 around the world.!
This is offensive and misguided. The spread of coronavirus to the rest of world is because everyone was only looking at faces, not symptoms.
Lol while ignoring the white tourists who were in China who may be spreading it 😂😂 anyone can get this virus.
CPHO_Canada
What a bunch of racists amiright?!
An example of facial recognition technology being used for nefarious reasons
Fake news
Nothing wrong. China itself is doing this to its own people to control the disease.
Yes because the virus can be used as a political weapon...!!
chrismartenson I assume you saw this but just encase.
Russians always know how to take shit to the next level.
Did y’all expect a higher moral standard from.... Russians (not all).
Replace Chinese with Jewish and this is called a pogrom.
We should be terrified that we haven’t found the source! Did Russia start this? If made in a lab, are those in power already vaccinated against it? Not a conspiracy theorist here, just a very worried nurse! CNN MSNBC get to the bottom of this already!
And our president forcing them on a plane full of non infected people
Racist
Is it just me or do you feel like we are in the middle of a sci-fi movie?
You mean Coronavirus aka Covid-19 which is spreading globally. Check Worldometer via Google search SOS Alert, out with stats of infected cases and deaths from the east, middle east to Europe and now in Africa.
Thats not going ro help ANYONE its pure racial profiling.
Good luck with that Russia 😂
Authoritarians are gonna use the authoritarian playbook no matter what.
It seems like the White Supremacists are using COVID-19 as an excuse to attack Asians.
Isolating patients is one thing, profiling and discriminating people is quite another. Russian authorities must stop this kind of profiling.
I'm getting the feeling this has nothing to do with the flu.
Smart. Regardless if its okay, often smart isnt te same as sensible.
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