Unsettling footage shows children in Shanghai wearing hazmat suits on way to school; COVID patients feel like ‘animals’ in Shanghai where fences restrain sick residents, and other C-Virus related stories

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Unsettling footage shows children in Shanghai wearing hazmat suits on way to school:

Unsettling footage appears to show young children in Shanghai dressed in hazmat suits amid China’s zero Covid policy.

The dystopian clip shows a group of youngsters covered from head to toe heading to school during the world’s strictest lockdown.

The kids, who seem to be of primary school age, are also wearing face masks, leaving only their eyes visible.

The worrying scenes come as earlier this month heartbreaking images showed toddlers screaming their heads off after they were forcibly removed from their parents and kept in cages.

Shanghai’s 26 million residents have been plunged into an extremely strict lockdown for more than five weeks with Chinese authorities justifying it as a way to get the city’s Covid cases under control.

China’s most populated city reported a record number of positive cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its zero Covid approach. --->READ MORE HERE

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COVID patients feel like ‘animals’ in Shanghai where fences restrain sick residents:

Shanghai authorities erected high fences outside the homes of residents who tested positive for COVID-19 this week, prompting outcry on social media that people were being treated like animals amid the city’s harsh lockdowns.

Images and videos of workers in hazmat suits fencing off buildings with 6-foot-tall green metal bars made the rounds on the Chinese social-media site Weibo, where users also complained the structures were fire-safety hazards.

“This is so disrespectful of the rights of the people inside, using metal barriers to enclose them like domestic animals,” a person said.

Many of the metropolis’s 25 million residents have been shut in as China doubles down on its “zero COVID” policy. Nearly 40 people died of the virus in Shanghai on Saturday, the city’s highest numbers since it imposed its lockdown amid the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. --->READ MORE HERE

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