A city in southeast China is responding to its latest COVID-19 outbreak by quarantining infected individuals and their close contacts, including children younger than 12 years old. Medical staff and parents alike have shared stories of grief and videos of their unaccompanied children in hospitals.
A 4-year-old boy in a full white hazmat suit with a backpack—almost half the size of his body—was captured on video trudging alone in a hospital corridor awaiting a CT scan following his positive test for COVID-19. Millions of users circulated the video footage, captured by a nurse at the fever clinic of the Affiliated Hospital of Putian University who uploaded it on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
