Officials in Guangzhou issued a rare apology on behalf of community health workers who broke into at least 84 apartments while searching for people they believed were infected with COVID and hiding to avoid quarantine.
A person receiving a coronavirus test in Guangzhou, China, on July 8. Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesWednesday on behalf of community health workers who broke into dozens of apartments while searching for people who tested positive for coronavirus and other people who had close contacts.
Under China's Zero-COVID strategy, people who test positive or had a close contact must spend a number of days in centralized quarantine facilities, according to the Times.The government of the city’s Liwan district said the health workers conducted "conducted emergency investigations" on the apartments to "prevent the emergence of new community transmission."
"The above-mentioned emergency household inspection method is simple and crude, ignoring the feelings of the residents and hurting the feelings of the masses," it said. It claimed that all locks had been replaced and that the head of the neighborhood personally apologized to each resident.
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