Residents say authorities in Shanghai, now in its sixth week under strict lockdown, have begun forcing more people into centralized quarantine facilities
of the coronavirus. Following a meeting Thursday, the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top decision-making body, compared the pandemic measures in Shanghai with a war that must be won.
Beijing is racing to test more than 20 million people as residents scramble to stock up on food. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng shows what life is like in the capital and unpacks the likely ripple effects if officials can’t control the fast-spreading virus. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Tong Zhiwei, a professor of constitutional law at Shanghai’s East China University of Political Science and Law, wrote in a widely circulated open letter, which he shared on several chat groups on Sunday, that practices such as forcing residents into quarantine can’t be undertaken without formal approval from the State Council, China’s cabinet, or the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, its legislature.
On Chinese social-media platforms, videos of officials in white, full-body protective medical suits announcing and enforcing what appeared to be the new rules circulated widely, prompting further anger and confusion. “I hope you cooperate. Only when you don’t cooperate will we force you to be transferred,” one man is heard saying in the video. “But we are not sick,” a woman replied. The authenticity of the videos couldn’t be verified.
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