A nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwest China this week has set off a storm of anger online over the harshness of the country's strict COVID-19 policies
This photo taken on September 17, 2022 shows a health worker taking a swab sample from a resident to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chengdu in China's southwestern Sichuan province. - The Chinese megacity of Chengdu will on September 19 come out of a lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced millions to stay at home in large swathes of the city for over two weeks.
“Will this ever end? On the top searches , there’s all sorts of pandemic prevention situations every day, creating unnecessary panic and making people jittery,” one person wrote. “Is there scientific validity to hauling people to quarantine, one car after another?”” by Monday, one day after the crash.
The approach saved lives before vaccines were widely available, as people refrained from public gatherings and wore masks regularly. However, as other countries have opened up and loosened some of the most onerous restrictions, China has held steadfast to itsWhile China has cut down its quarantine time for overseas arrivals and said it would start issuing student visas, the policy remains strict at home.
According to FreeWeibo, a website that tracks censored posts on the popular social media platform, three of top 10 searches on Weibo related to the bus accident.
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