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Wild video from China has surfaced showing people sitting on the ground in tiny quarantine boxes have people on social media scratching their heads.
The boxes seem to be nothing more than 4 aluminum posts covered with saran wrap.
Meanwhile, China’s capital, Beijing, has dialled up measures to stop Covid, strengthening public checks and locking down some residential compounds after a quadrupling of its cases in recent weeks, just as a key Communist party congress entered full swing.
The city of 21 million people on Thursday reported 18 new locally transmitted cases for the previous day, bringing the tally for the past 10 days to 197. That is four times more than the 49 infections detected in the previous 10-day period.