Videos showing chaotic scenes at a Covid-19 quarantine center in Shanghai were shared on Chinese social media sites WeChat and Weibo on Monday. Many videos showed how people quarantined at the site were fighting over supplies such as blankets, water, and food, some crying when they were unable to get anything but some bottles of water – or nothing at all.
People posting the videos said they were at a designated field hospital in Nanhui, Shanghai (上海南汇方舱), where both staff and supplies were lacking for the hundreds of people quarantined there.
One person filming at the site complained that other people had taken all supplies, leaving herself and her mother without anything. “If you can, please help us expose [the situation],” she cried: “It’s so scary (..) Nobody is managing the situation.”
On social media, Shanghai residents complained about the conditions at the isolation site:
“Can you take a look at the Nanhui hospital site, my mum tested positive and was at home for a week laying low and she recovered, yet they still recklessly took her away. When she arrived she had to snatch a room for herself, nothing was fixed, people testing positive and negative all mixed together, there was no hot water, no healthcare workers, no nurses, there was nothing. People had to fight over food and water, the chaos and confusion was over the limit.”
News from the chaos at the Shanghai Nanhui isolation site comes at a time when the city is fighting its worst outbreak yet. On April 3, Shanghai reported 9006 new symptomatic and asymptomatic cases. The city of 26 million residents will remain under lockdown.
Following China’s ‘zero-Covid strategy,’ everyone who tests positive, whether they have symptoms or not, is to be quarantined at designated locations.
There is an increase in online criticism of the existing stringent measures, with many wondering why people are taken off to quarantine sites with insufficient resources, while they might just as well safely isolate themselves in their own homes.
“Why should our fellow countrymen, just because they have contracted Covid-19, have to endure such inhumane treatment?”, one Weibo commenter wonders, using the #ShanghaiNanhui hashtag.
“Remember, this is the year in 2022 in Shanghai. Protect yourself, protect your family,” another commenter said.
“Is this Shanghai, or is this hell?”, another person commented on a video where people could be seen fighting over supplies.
Some videos of the scenes at Nanhui are in the Twitter thread below:
Videos surfacing on Chinese social media today show chaotic scenes from the Nanhui covid19 quarantine location, where people were fighting over resources. pic.twitter.com/BZTDMBmb7F
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) April 4, 2022
One video showing the chaotic scenes was shared on Chinese social media platform Weibo over 12,000 times on Mondaynight, receiving hundreds of comments.
“This is a total mess. People will go crazy if this continues any longer,” one Weibo user wrote.
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By Manya Koetse
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