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Roadblocks in Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak: Hunan Province blocks all the roads avoiding accesses from Hubei 1/3

Editor’s Note: Hunan, the Province next to Hubei Province, its government decides to block all the roads connecting to that new Coronavirus disaster area. From the pictures, the blockades are not only covering the main roads or control points, but even more on those pathways. This is well understandable that, in China, everyone is good at playing games with shortcuts to bypass genuine channel. That’s why, in government perspective, the best way preventing entry of the virus is to eliminate every single possible access. Wellbeing of or curing Hubei / Wuhan people is never a consideration.

Conversation in the image:
Hunan people have blocked the ways from Hubei to Hunan

Source: LIHKG, (25 Jan)
https://lih.kg/1839712

#Hubei #Hunan #Quarantined #WuhanPneumonia #Roadblock
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Roadblocks in Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak: Hunan Province blocks all the roads avoiding accesses from Hubei 2/3

(24 Jan) All main roads and country-side alleys from Henan to Hubei have been dug broken.

Source: https://t.me/zhujuan2018/13760

#Hunan #Hubei #Quarantined #WuhanPneumonia #Roadblock
#NetizensVoice

Editor’s Note: Quarantine done wrong is just a hot bed for spreading the virus. The person in this story got away this time. But other people may not be so lucky.

_XiaoChao zZ 1-26 08:51 from iPhone

I go to school in Wuhan. I left Wuhan and reached Chengdu on January 11th. Then I arrivedat Kashgar, Xinjiang on the 17th. I left Wuhan for 15 days and showed no symptoms. I had passed the incubation period. This morning, folks from the community brought me to a check-up, which turned out to only measure my body temperature, and it was normal. But then they just took me and some others to quarantine, where no check-up was performed. There was no evidence to suggest that I had the coronavirus. The quarantine environment was extremely bad. I did what the government wanted, but they tricked us into quarantine. Can it still be called quarantine when there is no collection of evidence? There was only one bathroom in the entire floor and no place to charge battery. Why bully commoners like us? I asked them why no check-ups before quarantine. They did not answer. When they said it was time for check-up, we just obeyed. We did not bring anything, but ended up in quarantine. According to others being quarantined, not even a mask was distributed. You got only one meal a day. The preventive measures were totally subpar, and there was not even any reason to put me in quarantine in the first place. I managed to get passed the incubation period myself. But any other fine youngster might get sick for going through the same thing.

Source: Internet
https://t.me/zhujuan2018/14339

#Xinjiang #Wuhan #Quarantined #WuhanPneumonia
Quarantined in Xinjiang

Editor's Note: The Chinese government is struggling to control the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, using unethical methods like forced quarantine and other mistreatment of its citizens. Personal protective equipment, basic living necessities and human rights are neglected.

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The heater is useless and doesn’t provide any warmth. Some other places under quarantine in Xinjiang do not even have heaters.
People are confined to places with no heaters. Even those who are healthy will get sick easily at night.

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We are students returning to our hometown. We were dragged directly to a quarantine camp in the Gobi desert for 14 days.

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Korla’s case is similar! My boyfriend is of normal health and was forcefully taken at midnight. They said he was going to a hospital for a routine check-up. Instead, they took him to a town more than a dozen kilometres away. People that needed to be quarantined were locked up in the back of a truck. It was an unventilated space and they were not provided with face masks. This is imprisonment, not quarantine! This prison doesn't even have a heater!

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(26 Jan) My boyfriend returned from Wuhan to Xinjiang on 12 Jan. Two days ago, he went for a check-up in a hospital and had a clean bill of health. But today, he and his entire family were quarantined. We received a notice asking us to stay home for 15 days in isolation in lieu of quarantine. Now they are gathering and quarantining everyone. This means that if one person among the crowd is already sick, the infection can easily spread to the others. Now everyone is taken to a school and assigned to stay in a 4-person room. My understanding is that other places in Xinjiang have a similar predicament. We are willing to cooperate but please at least give us some protection from the virus. Sheets and blankets were distributed at 4am. There is only one electrical outlet in a room shared by a whole family. Some places have hot water while others do not. Some people asked me to delete this post and I am unsure when authorities will contact me to do so. I hope that the more people see this, the more they will publicise it. If my message is unclear, please message or comment and I will reply. I am not making this up. I am only telling the truth. If someone accuses me of spreading fake news and rumours, I cannot stop them. I am also scared that others will be harmed because I speak the truth. I hope everyone can speak out.
Oh, our first meal of the day has just been distributed. I am unsure if it is breakfast or lunch...

Source: Weibo, Internet
https://t.me/zhujuan2018/14492

#Imprisonment #Xinjiang #Quarantined #WuhanPneumonia
“Wuhan pneumonia” A clash in Nagoya airport in Japan! 70 Shanghaineses blocked 19 Wuhan people boarding

Because Wuhan is the original place of the pneumonia virus, Hubei Wuhan people are blacklisted by the whole China. “Civil war” of mainlanders was extended to Nagoya, Japan. On the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year (27 Jan), 70 Shanghainses refused to fly back to Shanghai with 19 Wuhan people, alarming police in Japan and the Chinse consulate in Nagoya, Japan. The flight finally could take off after the clash lasted for 5 hours. All 19 Wuhan people were quarantined after they arrived Shanghai Pudong airport. More than 70 Shanghaineses were success in this stand. They could change to different airlines without any surcharge and receive accommodation fee.

At 9:25pm of 27 Jan morning, the flight of the China Southern Airlines, CZ380, was scheduled to Shanghai. After check-in, a Shanghai auntie found some passengers were chatting in Wuhan dialect and they were taking medicine for flu. After she found the situation of enemies, she told her fellows immediately. Shanghainese passengers rushed to the check-in counter and spoke to a ground crew, “These Wuhan people have fever now. Can’t let them board.”

Wuhan passengers insisted that they didn’t have problem. The fight was heated up quickly and more people participated. A Shanghainese said, “ If Wuhan people are allowed to board, we will reject to board!” Both parties locked in stalemate. 19 Wuha people have boarded. Someone said, “You don’t board, I board!”

Then Shanghaineses called to Shanghai airport and different departments of government and reported. They urged authorities should have an action firmly to reject Wuhan people to go to Shanghai. And they requested to check body temperature of Wuhan passengers in Nagoya airport. As a result, one of Wuhan passengers was found to have fever at 37.1℃. The China Southern Airlines suspended that flight. However, fever of that passenger was gone later. Therefore, quarantine officer let him board finally. The flight took off at 2:30pm of the local time. There were 100 passengers in the plane originally. After negotiation, 70 Shanghainese could change to other airlines and 19 Wuhan people were quarantined immediately after arriving at Shanghai.

The National Health Commission of Shanghai confirmed that 27 passengers were in the flight of CZ380. 19 people of them have been Wuhai in 14 days. 19 people were sent to designated place for quarantine centrally. And tests have been done. Results of the first test were negative for all.

Source: Sina Weibo/ Japan CBC Television
https://bit.ly/2RySZZ7
#Japan #Nagoya #Shanghainese #Hubei #CivilWar #Shanghai #Quarantined
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A patient who has been placed in isolation tries to escape, using a chair to break the window of his isolation ward. He ignores a security guard and a woman who both desperately yell at him and order him not to leave. The woman tries to snatch the chair away from him to stop him from climbing out through the window, but he refuses to let go of it.

Source: Internet
https://t.me/zhujuan2018/14513

#Quarantined #Escape #China #WuhanPneumonia
#NetizensVoice

Open letter to all mainland students: You should defend freedom

EDITOR's NOTE: Xiaotangshan is the site of a hospital built in 7 days in 2003 to divert some of the SARS patients from Beijing. Xi Jinping wants to break that record and build a new one in 6 days.

(30 Jan) According to the lunar calendar, today is the fourth day of the New Year. First of all, we wish everyone a Happy Lunar New Year in (mainland) China. Of course, some friends, especially those from Hubei, may not be so cheerful. “Plague in Wuhan,” “Lock down Hubei” have become the hottest keywords for friends from Hubei or even across the country. In recent days, I have noticed that everyone is collecting signatures. Let me chime in a couple words. I am not any noteworthy person. Like everyone else, I'm just a very ordinary mainland student. It all started when a classmate from Tsinghua University and a double major student from Normal University argued that soft quarantine is a form of discrimination. But is this really discrimination?

The leaked Hubei video series “Step on someone even if I die” has flashed in my mind countless times. Just because someone was infected, he spat in public places, coughed hard, and plied open protective clothing of doctors in the high-risk zones in a hospital, just to get the doctor infected, too. The plague has taken off the last disguise of a twisted society that has long been restrained. People begin to tear down the mask given by the system and culture. (Hark! Politics has nothing to do with me. You see the shootings in the U.S. all day long? Taiwan is even more rotten than China.)

Continue Reading:
https://telegra.ph/Open-letter-to-all-mainland-students-You-should-defend-freedom-01-31

Source: Facebook Diary of Jiabao (家賓日記)
https://bit.ly/2uOtwlg

#WuhanPneumonia #Freedom #Discrimination #Quarantined #Xiaotangshan
#Newspaper

Ho Pak Leung: send police to locate Hubei tourists
Lam Chi Wai: no objection if accompanied by medical staff

(30 Jan) Ho Pak Leung, Director of Carol Yu Centre for Infection at the University of Hong Kong, suggested that police could be dispatched to patrol the hotels. Lam Chi Wai, Chairman of the Junior Police Officers’ Association, said he didn’t object the suggestion, but medical staff should go along with the operation.

Lam Chi Wai replied the inquiry from South China Morning Post that he didn’t object this suggestion. However, these operations involve certain professional medical knowledge. The purpose is to convince the identified targets to cooperate. A medical expert can explain to those who may need quarantine and make immediate inspection.

He also mentioned, if police have the authority conferred by law to quarantine identified targets compulsorily, they would cooperate with the government to enforce the law. As team members of professional disciplined services, they will not resist.

Ho Pak Leung mentioned in the radio programme that he was worried that some Wuhan visitors to Hong Kong would be hiding in the hotels. They may become invisible cases and act just like “time bombs.” That’s why the HK government should learn from Macau to dispatch police to search for visitors who have been to Wuhan or the residents from Hubei in the hotels, and assist them to return to mainland China for quarantine and receive treatment.

Source: The Stand News
https://www.thestandnews.com/society/何栢良倡警找出湖北旅客-林志偉-不反對-但應有醫護隨行/

#MedicalStaff #InvisibleCases #Quarantined
#NetizensVoice #OpinionArticle

If my friend who works in the medical field go on a strike Pazu

(31 Jan) HK government paid hundred million for police gear, water cannon vehicle, armoured vehicle, long-range acoustic device (LRAD) to support the police force and their brutality, like throwing money into the sea. They were not reluctant to pay hundreds and millions of dollars for their overtime.

What sort of patients are we admitted to our hospital wards? Some were hiding the truth, and some ran away. They have obviously been to Hubei, but they did not tell. They knew they might be infected, but they remained silent. The sick ones are selfish and do not want to be quarantined. They preferred to spread the virus everywhere, spread the virus to doctors, nurses, staff in the hospital and other patients in the same hospital ward. Finally, the virus will be spread to all citizens in Hong Kong. The HK government doesn’t care.

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/If-my-friend-who-works-in-the-medical-field-go-on-a-strikePazu-02-01

Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/2OfvxxS

#Strike #FrontlineMedicalStaff #CultureRevolutionTactics #SelfishPatient #Quarantined #SpreadVirus #WARS #Cononavirus #Pazu
#Newspaper

About 200 PRC students of the University of Hong Kong are sent to hotels for quarantine, some of them do not strictly comply with the guidelines: Student accommodation staff from the HKU

Editorial note: PRC students’ non-compliance with quarantine guidelines not only increases the transmission of virus at community level, but it also reveals the deficiency of the current quarantine arrangement - nobody ensures actual isolation from the rest of the community.
Hotels are being abused as luxury free holidays. Hotel’s lack of authority and transparency to disclose whether they have high-risk visitors staying at the premises put other visitors at risk. Noted that a Wuhan couple stayed at W-hotel subsequently confirmed as coronavirus infected had transmitted the virus to people they had directed contacts as well as increasing other people who had contacts with them at two other hotels where they had been visited.

(5 Feb) The coronavirus epidemic continues to spread. HKU indicted some days ago that they arranged PRC students who returned to Hong Kong to stay at hotels for “self-quarantine.” However, some students did not strictly comply with the quarantine guidelines and “went around everywhere.”

The student dorms staff pointed out that all students were required to have their body temperature measured at the time of check-in. Staff asked the students which parts of PRC did they come from. They were then centralised for sending to many hotels, including L’Hotel Island South and other hotels in Yau Ma Tei and Kwun Tong, as well as other districts. HKU distributes body temperature measurement sheets to the students. Hotel staff is responsible for recording their body temperature.

The student dorms staff stated that since the coronavirus response plan began in the end of last month, at least 200 students had been sent to different hotels for “self-quarantine”. However, some of them did not strictly follow the quarantine guidelines. “They went around everywhere. Some went to work. Some even invited their friends to play at the hotels.” The staff said relevant students would be disciplined, including the issuance of warning letters and be expelled from dorm.

Ming Pao journalists attempted to enquire L’hotel about this but the hotel group refused to disclose whether HKU had arranged PRC students to stay at their hotel at Southern District. The hotel group only vaguely replied to media’s enquiry that they have ‘visitors’ from Mainland staying at the hotels who were required by the government to quarantine for 14 days. These people are not from Wuhan or other places in Hubei Province.

Source: Ming Pao (05-Feb)
https://bit.ly/39mmGCR

#Coronavirus #WuhanPneumonia #HKU #PRCStudent #Quarantined
#Newspaper

Hubei is set to put all confirmed patients in quarantined centres
No medics, medicine nor equipment in hospitals
Patient's family: person gets worse after admitted to hospital


(11 Feb) Wuhan government said on 2 Feb that all patients who were suspected or confirmed to have novel coronavirus infection would be sent to centralised quarantine for treatments. On Monday night, the city's government said that more than 99% of the population had undertaken a diagnostic test. All suspected cases would be examined within two days.

Even though the government had built 11 hospitals in three days and increased more than 10,000 beds, we talked to a few suspected patients and they said they could not get a bed in a hospital. Even if they managed to do so they might not be able to receive proper care.

Last Sunday morning, Wuhan citizen Wang Sha and the family members of some patients went to No. 2 WISCO Hospital to bring medicine for the sick, but they were stopped right at the entrance by security guards. Wang's mother was confirmed with the virus, and sent to the hospital in the early morning of Saturday. The reason why Wang and others were so anxious was that they knew from the patients that the hospital was not equipped.

"My mother has called me again and again starting from 9 a.m. yesterday. She said there were no medics, no water and no medicine in the hospital. She was unwell but she couldn't find a doctor. She had difficulty to breathe that night and was gasping severely. There was no oxygen mask. Since she was sent there, not a single medic has entered her room to care for her."

Wang said that many patients from that hospital have told their families about this lack of care. They have formed a group on Weixin (similar to Whatsapp) to exchange information. There was a patient who suffered significant drop in blood oxygen level, but the hospital seemed to be doing nothing. People were not allowed to provide supplies to the hospital either.

"This is probably a hard order made by the central government, which commands that all newly confirmed patients to be put in these hospitals. It's true that they are staying in hospitals, but the problem isn't solved at all. Speaking from my own feelings, I think now it's like locking people up and keeping them there."

Source: i-cable
https://bit.ly/2UNYQeY

#Hubei #CoronavirusOutbreak #Quarantined #HumanRights #COVID19
#Newspaper
Passengers Entering Hong Kong from China Say in Mandarin They Won't Follow Self-Quarantine Rule as They are "Not Sick"

The Hong Kong Government has been enforcing the 14-day self-quarantine measure since Feb 8. Many people from China rushed through Shenzhen Bay port to enter Hong Kong on Feb 7 before the "deadline". The Shenzhen Bay Port was crowded.

When entering Hong Kong, people speaking only Mandarin said that as they were "not sick", self-segregation would not be unnecessary and they would not follow such rule.

Ms. Zeng, who came from Jiangmen, Guangdong in China, said, “I drove over alone today, as the public transportation in China has stopped.” Ms. Zeng wanted to stay in China for a few more days, but as she learned that Hong Kong is preparing to implement new anti-epidemic measures, she immediately went to Hong Kong with her two sons. She visits China on every public holiday and she criticized the government’s new proposals. "Isn’t China advocating 14-day quarantine at home? I didn’t go there. China is well sealed! You see, there are many human contacts".

When asked about the customs clearance dispute, she thinks it was enough to block people from Hubei. And as she was from Guangdong, there is no need for her to be quarantined. She even pointed out that it was unnecessary to quarantine for 14 days and for home quarantine persons to wear electronic tracking bracelets. Data show that Guangdong has the second most diagnosed cases after Hubei Province in China.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Putonghua-citizens-from-China-dont-think-wearing-electronic-bracelets-is-unnecessary-02-17

Source: Apple Daily #Feb7
https://bit.ly/2Hxtl0V

#ShenzhenBay #WuhanPneumonia #Selfishness #Quarantined #Electronicbracelets
Due to the nature of how the COVID-19 virus spreads, almost everything in key virus-hit areas run the risk of being contaminated by people who are infected with it. People are worried that the virua could be mutating to thrive in new environments that it previously could not thrive in. That is why bank notes have to quarantined and sanitized before it gets redistributed and used.

#coronavirus #banknotes #quarantined

Full story:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-15/china-quarantines-cash-to-sanitize-old-bank-notes-from-virus

Further more:
https://twitter.com/CriticalCezanne/status/1229096309677641728?s=09