Beijing State media reported Tuesday (May 3) a 1,000-bed hospital at Xiaotangshan in the northeastern suburbs built for the 2003 SARS outbreak has been refurbished to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases in case it is needed.
Unofficial reports online say thousands of beds have been prepared in a centralized quarantine center near the airport, but state media has not confirmed those preparations in what could be an attempt to avoid stoking public fears.
New COVID-19 cases in Beijing have remained steady, with another 62 recorded on Monday (May 2), 11 of them showing no symptoms, up just slightly from about 50 per day over the weekend.
Beijing has ordered restaurants and gyms closed for the May Day national holiday that runs through Wednesday, while major tourist sites in the city, including the Forbidden City and the Beijing Zoo, will close their indoor exhibition halls starting Tuesday.
Another three rounds of testing have been ordered for most of the city’s 21 million people starting Tuesday, following a similar
Covid-19 quarantine camps in China!
— Protest News (@ProtestNews_EN) May 4, 2022
How can a human being live in such a small space? pic.twitter.com/BkO3ORYmuB
Welcome to China!
— Inty (@__Inty__) May 4, 2022
The Best Country in the world! 🤣pic.twitter.com/teLPWIpw58
In #China's Jinan, Shandong province, uprising hungry civilians clashed with communist Covid authorities. Police arrested 330 in the name of resisting their Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic prevention. pic.twitter.com/slNVF5MRT3
— Northrop Gundam (@GundamNorthrop) May 4, 2022
Heart-wrenching video of a worker in Shanghai, who stops a truck to expose his desperation and hunger. Man breaks down crying when given bananas and crackers pic.twitter.com/trNTM9vHzi
— Chuang (@chuangcn) May 3, 2022
#Shanghai This is china. This is Communism. See how people escape from it pic.twitter.com/ZwBUWU1Uxy
— Dharmendra Ved (@Dhir1032Kumar) May 2, 2022
Looks like people in Shanghai have had enough 🚨 pic.twitter.com/S7JCyy5l1A
— Xx (@Xx17965797) May 2, 2022
#Shanghai This is china. This is Communism. See how people escape from it pic.twitter.com/ZwBUWU1Uxy
— Dharmendra Ved (@Dhir1032Kumar) May 2, 2022
China's PCR test for chickens and fish. pic.twitter.com/wxmzpgXGuM
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) May 4, 2022
How China does public health pic.twitter.com/hCp0BpEPU4
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) May 2, 2022
China 🇨🇳 These villagers already know about Shanghai so they are fighting with stones against Covid scam team. #China #coronascam #coronabedrog #lockdown #thegreatcoronashow #WEF #wefgate #Agenda2030 pic.twitter.com/xD2DIqF4rg
— Rob (@D0ntTakeTheVax) May 4, 2022
Video shows how Chinese police broke into Shanghai residents’ home on the grounds of positive nucleic acid tests. This is just the tip of the iceberg of China’s draconian lockdown as news is blocked by the Great Firewall.
— Joséphine (@Jojo99275148) May 4, 2022
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This is the video everyone's talking about today, showing how a Shanghai nursing home resident is taken away to the morgue in a body bag. At around 38 sec in the video, the staff member backs away and says: "He's alive. He's alive, I saw it. Don't cover him anymore." pic.twitter.com/Y3HzRRpxUl
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) May 2, 2022
Staff discovers "dead" coronavirus patient in Shanghai is still alive while taking him to the morgue.
— BNO News (@BNONews) May 2, 2022
"He's alive. He's alive! I saw it. Don't cover him anymore!" pic.twitter.com/aap2P0a9vl
Hunger
Observing the living conditions of the Shanghai people in quarantine, the people of Zhengzhou have made every effort to buy as much food as they can. pic.twitter.com/AIJ8hYq3xp
— Protest News (@ProtestNews_EN) May 4, 2022
People are searching for food in the trash cans in #Shanghai.As far as i know, many foods that should have been distributed to them was deliberately dumped into the trash can by government staffs. What kind of government could treat their people like this?#TakeDownTheCCP pic.twitter.com/KJHKmzeqyj
— Meeno (澳喜特战旅) (@Meeno17043089) April 27, 2022
CHINA – Every dot is a vessel stacked in queues at all ports, not just Shanghai.
— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) May 3, 2022
China’s lockdown policies will cripple western supply chains, destroy businesses and weaken economies & governments.
Almost like sanctions.#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/0PxDNwnnyQ
Empty stores in China..Will it happen here in America? pic.twitter.com/yGk4k49Dfb
— Famous14u (@famous14u) May 4, 2022