China Isolates Children to Control New COVID-19 Outbreak


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A city in southeast China is responding to its latest COVID-19 outbreak by quarantining the infected individuals and their close contacts, including children under 12 years old. Medical staff and parents alike have shared stories of grief and videos of their unaccompanied children in hospitals. A four-year-old boy in a full white hazmat suit with a backpack—almost half-size of his body—was captured on video trudging alone in the hospital corridor awaiting a CT scan following his positive test for COVID-19. Millions of users circulated the video , captured by a nurse at the fever clinic of the Affiliated Hospital of...