INSIDE CHINAIsraeli Consul General Recounts Being Held in Prison-Like COVID Hospital in ChinaSaveMark Us Preferred on GooglePrintA health worker takes a swab sample from a man to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Huangpu district in Shanghai on Oct. 24, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty ImagesLia Onely12/6/2022|Updated: 12/6/2022Israel’s consul general in Shanghai, Edward Shapira, was held in a medical facility for COVID patients for 10 days after contracting the virus.“The problem is that it caught me in the most wrong place on earth—in China,” Shapira said on his Facebook page on Dec. 3.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.