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China Wastes Billions Building Makeshift Hospitals Nationwide, Most Abandoned or Unfinished

February 13, 2023
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago, Beijing has ordered the construction of countless makeshift hospitals nationwide, some costing as much as 10,000 yuan (about $1,500) per square meter. Those facilities were primarily used to quarantine mild to asymptomatic COVID-positive patients. However, when Beijing abruptly ended its Zero-COVID policy last December, makeshift hospitals nationwide…

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Pandemic Worker Regrets the Easing of the Lockdowns in China

December 29, 2022
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Zhao Lei (pseudonym) has worked as an epidemic control worker wearing white protective clothing since June. Beijing’s sudden easing of COVID-19 prevention measures meant he was terminated from his job. To him, the preventive volunteer job was a temporary but quick way to make money. Zhao said he wanted to continue doing the job for…

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China’s ‘Big White’ COVID Police Face Increasing Pushback Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Measures

May 17, 2022
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For the past three years under the cloak of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, official pandemic prevention staff dressed in white protection gear have been a common site across China. Chinese have given them the nickname, “big whites.” The big whites—who some refer to as “White Guards” to mark the end of the CCP’s…

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COVID Testing Rules and Makeshift Hospitals Rile Shanghai Residents

April 21, 2022
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Shanghai residents who have said they have recovered from COVID are being sent to makeshift hospitals—called ‘fangcangs’—against their will. The city of some 26 million people has been in various stages of strict lockdown under the Chinese regime’s “Zero-COVID” policy for the past several weeks. During this time officials have been mechanically following orders resulting…

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