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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Erin Hale

China’s huge quarantine camps standing months after ‘zero COVID’

China's mass quarantine centres are still standing months after the end of Beijing's "zero COVID" policy [File: Reuters]

Taipei, Taiwan – Nearly four months after China abruptly scrapped its tough “zero-COVID” policies following rare mass protests, authorities have yet to dismantle sprawling quarantine facilities designed for isolating hundreds of thousands of people, an Al Jazeera investigation based on satellite imagery shows.

Mass quarantine facilities in three Chinese provinces appear fully intact with no visible changes to their structure, an analysis of the satellite images shows, raising questions about the Chinese government’s post-pandemic plans for the now-defunct structures.

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