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Alahna Kindred

Woman dragged to quarantine camp by hazmat-suited officials in China's zero-Covid regime

This is the horrifying moment people were forcibly dragged to Covid-19 quarantine camps in China by officials in hazmat suits.

The distressing footage was believed to have been taken last month and shows one woman being dragged along the floor by two officials.

In the same clip, three people are also seen carrying another person while another individual is on the floor surrounded by hazmat suits.

Terrified screams and shrieks can be heard as the disturbing footage comes to an end.

A tweet sharing the video reads: “Under Xi Jinping's rule, every night, thousands of people are being dragged into Covid quarantine camps.”

This is the moment a woman is dragged by officials in hazmat suits in China (SONGPINGANQ/TWITTER)

Another post by the same person appears to show the inside of a Covid quarantine camp in Shanghai.

The footage shows a desk with a TV, an iron-framed bunk bed without a mattress and a toilet and sink.

Commenting on the footage, one person wrote: “This is so harsh! The Chinese need to stand up because they aren't having any kind of life! Where is the UN in all this!”

Another said: “Xi Jinping & all of his CCP sheep are tyrannical monsters & will stop at nothing to get what they want. No regard for people, animals or the environment.”

The footage is believed to have been filmed last month (SONGPINGANQ/TWITTER)

It comes after the Chinese government put more than 200 million people back under strict Covid restrictions.

The country has imposed the measures on 28 cities, including Wuhan, where the deadly virus was first discovered almost three years ago.

Leader Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy has come under criticism after he called it a "people's war to stop the spread of the virus".

New data released by specialist firm Nomura showed around 208 million people are currently living under some level of lockdown.

"According to government statistics and our survey, 28 cities are currently implementing various levels of lockdown or some kind of district-based control measures," Nomura stated.

Terrified screams can he heard in the distressing clip (SONGPINGANQ/TWITTER)

The news comes as Shanghai has introduced a new type of Covid-19 vaccine that is inhaled rather than administered via injection in what is a world first.

The first people are starting to receive the vaccine, which is inhaled via the mouth from a vessel that looks like a takeaway coffee cup with a short mouthpiece.

The vaccine was approved by Chinese regulators and produced by Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics, for use as a booster in September.

"Our body's first line of defence is the mucus membrane of our respiratory system, we want that to be directly stimulated to improve immunity and using the inhaled vaccine does that," Dr Zhao Hui, chief medical officer at Shanghai United Family Hospital Pudong, said.

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