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Shanghai separates Covid-positive children from parents

Workers wearing protective gear talk with a resident during the second stage of a Covid-19 lockdown in Jing'an district in Shanghai, China, on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

SHANGHAI: Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26.

Three days later, Zhao was begging health authorities not to separate them after she and the little girl both tested positive for Covid-19, saying her daughter was too young to be taken away to a quarantine centre for children.

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