COVID-19 epidemics originating in China’s Liaoning and Anhui provinces have extended to other Chinese provinces following the May Day holiday. However, the source and route of the virus’s spread are still unknown, as thousands of Chinese citizens associated with identified cases have been quarantined due to contact tracing efforts.
In Liaoning’s capital city of Shenyang, more than 40,000 people were reportedly forced into home quarantine because they traveled during the May Day holiday. People were quarantined regardless of whether or not they had been tested for the virus. According to netizens, local officials were again seen sealing off residential communities, as well as barricading the entrances of some homes and the windows of some buildings, which would constitute a breach of basic human rights.
