BEIJING: With China's dropping of its 'zero-COVID' policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing. Since Beijing sud
, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing.in December after almost three years, cities across China have been left with tens of thousands of the temporary structures."zero-COVID" policy"Rather than leaving them empty, we're trying to use them in other ways, suiting the time and place," a city official from Suzhou, near Shanghai, told AFP.
In Jinan, the capital of eastern Shandong province, some cabins have become"heartwarming huts" where passers-by can shelter from the cold, charge their phones or even benefit from free hot water. But many former testing booths remain unused - so much so that some people are trying to sell them on the Internet.
Cities across China are finding new uses for the thousands of COVID-19 testing booths and makeshift quarantine centres that are no longer needed.
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