COVID-19 Quarantine Bus Crashes in China, Killing at Least 27

COVID-19 Quarantine Bus Crashes in China, Killing at Least 27
A health worker wearing a personal protection suit stands next to a bus used to transport people to COVID-19 quarantine in China in a file photo. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
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BEIJING—The victims of a bus crash that killed 27 people and injured 20 more in China’s Guizhou Province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID-related reasons, local media outlets reported on Sept. 18.

The crash occurred in the early hours of Sept. 18 on a highway in Sandu county, which is about 105 miles southeast of the provincial capital, Guiyang, according to police.