Shanghai residents question human cost of China's COVID quarantines

FILE PHOTO: Workers labour to convert the National Exhibition and Convention Center into a makeshift hospital for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China April 7, 2022. Picture taken April 7, 2022. cnsphoto via REUTERS

Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai's Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city's largest such centre.

That was before COVID-19 struck China's biggest city last month, the country's worst outbreak since the virus emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, infecting multiple patients, doctors and care workers at the 1,800-bed facility.