The treatment of a 92-year-old Shanghai woman who was sent to quarantine late at night has caused anger in China, underscoring the frustration that many are feeling under the nation’s strict Covid Zero rules.
Police and local officials had a locksmith force open a door to the apartment occupied by the woman and her son around 2am on Tuesday when no one responded to their knocking, the local government said on an official social media account. They acted because they feared “an accident,” and said the pair “voluntarily went downstairs” so they could leave for an isolation facility.
The woman and son later spent hours sitting in a hallway because the quarantine site they were sent to was out of beds, Caixin Global reported, citing a relative.
The government said the two were transferred to a quarantine center at 3am on Tuesday and assigned beds and provided with daily necessities. Quarantine staff there also conducted a brief health check-up for them. The government didn’t give full names of the people involved.
