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Reuters
Reuters
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Brenda Goh and Engen Tham

Shanghai separates COVID-positive children from parents in virus fight

FILE PHOTO: A child's hands are seen on a barrier at an area under lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Shanghai, China March 26, 2022. Picture taken March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song

Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-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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