China continues with its heavy-handed policy against the coronavirus. Right now, 36 million Chinese are confined for the latest outbreak of the disease, which leaves 2,000 cases and two deaths.
If the confinement decreed by the authorities is skipped, citizens face excessive violence by the authorities and even arrests, as can be seen in the video that illustrates these lines, in which we see how officers clad in PPE corner a man against a car and hit him. Immediately afterwards, they throw his partner to the ground and kick him without saying a word.
Other images show how a woman who defies confinement to look for food is intercepted in the middle of the street and reduced unceremoniously, while an elderly woman is harassed to undergo a COVID-19 test.
The omicron variant has triggered cases in the Asian country to record figures since the outbreak of the pandemic and the Chinese government does not hesitate to apply its expeditious ‘zero COVID’ policy.
Thus, after the first two deaths from the virus since January 2021, they remain closed two provinces and more than a dozen citiesthere are kilometric controls on highways and streets, some town halls have even resorted to concertinas: barbed wire to separate confined neighborhoods and free movement zones.
At other points, they use boundary fences and some neighbors, fed up with the isolation, take them ahead. At night, there is an order to watch with large lights so that no one escapes confinement.
Meanwhile, in Shanghai, Disneyland has closed its doors until new notice. Radical isolation measures that are shocking after two years of the pandemic and at a time when 87% of the Chinese population is already vaccinated.
Source: Lasexta
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