BEIJING: Videos of people being dragged from their homes by health workers in hazmat suits coursed through Chinese social media late Sunday before being pulled down on some platforms, as Shanghai’s intensive lockdown enters its seventh week.
The videos -- which purported to show Covid-19 positive patients and their close contacts tussling with the workers -- come as the city tightens some aspects of the lockdown despite a drop-off in new cases. People living in the same building of confirmed cases now also risk being transported to designated quarantine facilities, according to local residents and widely circulated social media posts. Previously, only people living in the same apartment or the same floor of positive cases would likely be considered close contacts and put under central quarantine.
