Rows upon rows of metal boxes to house suspected COVID-19 patients, lines of buses taking people to quarantine camps were seen in a set of nightmarish social media videos from China. The scenes, which seemed straight out of a dystopian movie, are among the several strict preventive measures the country is taking to check the spread of COVID-19.

China has imposed several draconian rules on its citizens under its "zero Covid" policy, placing millions under quarantine even as Beijing prepares to host next month's Winter Olympics.

People, including pregnant women, children and elderly, are being forced to stay in these crammed boxes furnished with a wooden bed and a toilet - for as long as two weeks - even if a single person tests positive in their locality, reported Daily mail.

In several areas, residents were told just after midnight that they need to leave their homes and go to the quarantine centres, it said.

Around 20 million people are now confined to their homes in China and are banned from leaving their home even to buy food, according to the report.

This comes days after the distressing case of a pregnant Chinese woman miscarrying after a strict lockdown delayed her access to medical treatment. The incident reignited debate over the limits of China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19.

Unlike softer lockdowns elsewhere, people in China can be banned from leaving their buildings or forced to remain inside hotel rooms if they are considered high-risk contacts.

The article, of course, is almost word for word copied across all major Indian news organizations.

Original Sources afaik - Daily Mail, Twitter

The comments are having a struggle session, so not everything is doom. But NDTV is the most "commie leftist-scum" news network and I'm scared of going into the comments of the more centrist or overtly right-wing news sites:

Those cabins have AC, so inside they would have done it to be comfortable. Stop seeing everything being done by China in negative lights.

How is it bad, it looks like a room with toilet, look at Indian isolation center, beds in stadium, we are still a developing country and we make fun of a developed country

Comparatively, we Indians are in heaven. Still complaints, complaints, complaints.

looks like a far better plan than anything in India

In WHOs word , this is Chinas solid covid management plan.

We still base Modi and praise China. I think some people want India to be like China.

Pls take those who feel india is unsafe.

Well it is at least a government that cares for people in some way unlike some government that is busy focusing on elections , festivals and building statues, temples etc.

World, cry all you want, this is real covid management. Wow. The amount of effort, planning and execution behind this mega project is really amazing.

What is shocking about this? I just see a very clean and well managed Covid facility. Far better than the poor hospitals and slums in our own country

How is this any different than the covid camps that we had? The metal boxes are air conditioned, are more comfortable

The accommodations and the infrastructure provided to the Chinese by the Chinese is better than shyte we Indians are forced to live in by India.

you call air conditioned and clean and reasonably spacious space as a metal box. ok then we should all say that we live in concrete box ?

Inhuman

People in India who talk about high headedness about Mr. Modi and freedom os speech should be sent to China, to understand what is actually high headedness. Be it farmers protest to farm laws or stopping of PM's movement in Punjab and getting away with it, they should be thankful that they are ina democracy, which does not supress human rights, instead of accusing our PM and defaming him. Didn't Indra do the same during emergency. The problem in India is the more you get, more one expects.

Effective means of ensuring isolation, with minimal inconvenience to the quarantees.

Hell on earth

All countries should boycott winter Olympic in China. China is a roque state, enemy of all neighbouring countries.

and people complain the democratic system of India.

True face of Communists

But some in our country want to follow China ?

Still better than people dying on road.

Air conditioned metal boxes. -> Freedom is more valuable than living in air conditioned camps

Neat and clean. Better than indian hospitals. Moreover, food is delivered free.

Better , Healthier and More Sanitary than anything you can find in India . Indians would be Uncomfortable Living under these Modern Standards . -> go and live in China then , you won't value your own country until you go and live there

If given an independent air-conditioned metal box with cot and toilet, that would any day be million times better than our care centres! So, whats the big deal?! -> our country is much much better than China. You like it then better shift to China. UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE.

If they had stopped eating anything that moves - rats, cats, dogs and bats - this would never had happened!!!

Please treat Humans as Human not as an animal. Why one should suffer for others mistake, however if you really like this then please apply this quarantine to politicians and bigshots billionaire.