Beijing: 13,000 COVID-19 negative people forced into quarantine

Beijing: 13,000 COVID-19 negative people forced into quarantine To achieve the ‘zero-COVID-19’ policy in China, nearly 13,000 Beijing residents who tested negative but had a handful of infections were forced into quarantine. The capital city has been battling its worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 with the Omicron variant infecting over 1,300 since late April. This has prompted authorities to close restaurants, schools, and tourist attractions indefinitely. – China is currently grappling with one of its worst COVID-19 outbreaks, triggered in early March by the Omicron variant. – To recall, China had brought in the…