A Beijing man has quarantined thousands of his neighbors after ignoring orders to stay at home only to find out he has Covid, prompting police to launch an investigation against him. Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered hundreds of thousands of residents to stay in their homes over the past five weeks to contain the largest outbreak of the Corona virus since the start of the pandemic.
And authorities announced that a man in his 40s named Sun did not comply with a lockdown order issued to him after visiting a shopping center classified as “high risk”. “During his period of isolation at home, he repeatedly went outside and walked around the neighborhood,” said Pan Zhuhong, an official with the Beijing Public Security Agency.
It later emerged that Sun and his wife were injured, prompting authorities to place 5,000 people in their neighborhood under home quarantine and move another 250 to a state-run quarantine center. China is adopting a “zero Covid” strategy based on strict lockdowns, large-scale testing, and long-term lockdowns to eliminate epidemic hotspots.
