Reports of teenager dying in Covid quarantine cause outcry in China
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from Science | The Guardian on (#64WSV)
Video of girl struggling to breathe is circulating online, with claims family's pleas for help were ignored
Reports that a 16-year-old girl has died in a Covid quarantine centre after pleas from her family for medical help were ignored have caused anger in China, where ongoing tight pandemic controls have started to take their toll on a weary population.
Videos of the girl have spread across Chinese social media in the last 24 hours. The distressing footage, which the Guardian has not been able to independently verify, shows the teenager ill, struggling to breathe and convulsing in a bunk bed at what is purported to be a quarantine centre in Ruzhou, Henan province.
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