Shanghai reportedly installs high metal barriers around people’s homes to prevent them from leaving: ‘They might as well just burn us all inside our homes’
The city of Shanghai is installing metal barriers around people’s homes so that they are unable to go out in public, according to reports.
At least 25 million people are under an indefinite lockdown due to COVID-19 mitigation measures at the time of this reporting.
Local authorities have installed high fences and metal barriers outside private homes to prevent residents from leaving their homes amid the city’s latest COVID-19 outbreak, reports say.
According to a report from Insider, the move has inspired anger and sadness, with one social media user quipping that the move is nothing more than a fire hazard.
“They might as well just burn us all inside our homes,” the user tweeted on Chinese social media network Weibo. – READ MORE
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