COVID-19: Shanghai converts residences into isolation centre

Shanghai is converting residential buildings into isolation centres to house high number of COVID-19 cases, neighbours worried they are being put at increased risk of infection.

The Zhangjiang Group, which owns the compound said, “Authorities had converted five of its vacant buildings into isolation facilities and it had been advised a further nine buildings would be converted.

“It had moved 39 rental tenants to rooms in other parts of the compound and had offered them compensation.”

In an incident livestreamed on Thursday afternoon on Chinese messaging platform WeChat, about 30 people wearing hazmat suits with the word “police” on their back could be seen scuffling with other people outside a housing compound, taking away at least one person.

“It’s not that I don’t want to cooperate with the country, but how would you feel if you live in a building where the blocks are only 10 metres apart, everyone has tested negative, and these people are allowed in?” said the woman who was filming.

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Reuters