COVID: China is building a huge quarantine center

Covid: China places 20,000 inhabitants in forced quarantine But the occurrence of hundreds of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks - even if they are far from reaching the levels recorded in Europe and the United States - has provoked a strong response, with lockdowns and mandatory testing. The current outbreak in Shijiazhuang (11 million inhabitants), capital of Hebei province (north) which surrounds Beijing, has thus prompted the authorities to build a large quarantine center there to isolate people at risk. On Tuesday, hundreds of workers, assisted by cranes, were assembling white prefabricated rooms on a vast earthy lot on the…