A Chinese-Australian woman who went for a jog has lost her job after video footage triggered a storm of criticism. Other people breaking self-isolation rules have also been targeted, but one academic warns this has dangerous implications for privacy.
Chinese people have been naming and shaming their compatriots online for refusing to follow self-isolation or quarantine rules during the Covid-19 outbreak.
As of Thursday, mainland China reported a total of 80,967 confirmed cases of infection while the world’s tally surged to over 240,000. The worries that the foreign arrivals might herald a new wave of infections in China was heightened on Tuesday when the pharmaceutical company Bayer China issued a statement saying it had fired an employee after a video of her jogging without a mask triggered outrage on social media.
As soon as the video went viral on China’s Internet, Chinese netizens went further and exposed more details about the woman’s background on the Web. Some also called for her expulsion.On Wednesday, Beijing police issued an order saying that Liang had violated her visa conditions and asked her to leave the country within an unspecified date.
After he was later confirmed infected, officials decided to charge him with violating China’s quarantine regulations.
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