Ire as 92-year-old quarantined in China

BEIJING: The treatment of a 92-yearold Shanghai woman who was sent to quarantine late at night has caused anger in China, underscoring the frustration many are feeling under the strict Covid Zero rules.

Police had a locksmith force open a door to the flat occupied by the woman and her son at 2am when no one responded to their knocking.

Police said they feared “an accident” and the pair voluntarily came out. They later spent hours sitting in a hallway because the quarantine site they were sent to was out of beds, a relative said.

About two-thirds of the city’s 25 million residents remain under a lockdown that started three weeks ago.