Saturday, September 18, 2021
“I have tears”
Four year old isolated in China alone
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In the Corona crisis, China is following a particularly strict course to contain the pandemic. Videos of toddlers who are isolated without their parents keep appearing on social media. The case of a four-year-old is particularly a source of sympathy.
A four-year-old child who is wrapped in a huge white protective suit and helmet and stumbles lonely down the corridor of a hospital: Videos of small children from China who have contracted the coronavirus and who have been isolated from the authorities without their parents are currently circulating on social networks will. As reported by CNN and other media outlets, this clip shows a boy from Putian in the southern province of Fujian.
The video was recorded loudly “Taiwan News” from a nurse. A local newspaper quoted the woman as saying that tears welled up in her eyes when she saw an ambulance full of unaccompanied children arrive, according to CNN.
There is also great interest on the Internet, especially on Weibo, a Chinese platform that is comparable to Twitter. There one of the top comments under the video is: “It breaks my heart.” Someone else commented: “I cry.”
The video shows the harsh consequences of the strict zero-Covid strategy, according to CNN. In the pandemic, China has often imposed strict exit restrictions on neighborhoods or entire cities. This also means that millions of citizens are repeatedly tested and contact persons are quarantined.
This time, schoolchildren in particular got to feel the strict rules, writes CNN. 57 of the most recent 129 corona cases in Putian were children under the age of twelve, it is said with reference to the government. In order to curb the spread of the virus, children of kindergarten age were isolated from their parents and placed in Covid wards.
To make the time more pleasant, the hospital staff came up with various ideas to comfort the infected children, reports CNN. There will be comics on the walls of the hospital corridors and games and books will be made available to the children. CNN continues to report with a reprimand on state mediathat the caregivers also take the needs of the children into consideration, play with them or read books.
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