Tourists Stranded for Unpaid Quarantine Fees in Inner Mongolia

Former lawyer suspects the lockdown a set up

Truck drivers waiting to undergo tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus near Gants Mod port at the Chinese border with Gashuun Sukhait, in Umnugovi province, Mongolia, on Oct. 16, 2021. Uugansukh Byamba/AFP via Getty Images

Stranded Chinese tourists due to COVID-19 containment measures in Inner Mongolia found themselves stranded again by unsettled quarantine fees.

Officials transferred more than 9,500 stranded tourists from a scenic site in Ejine Banner of Inner Mongolia to different destinations for 14-day quarantine for medical observations, according to the Chinese media report on Nov. 3.