[Frontline interviews]Thousands of people living together in one room in Shanghai’s makeshift cabins | Epidemic cleared | Fangcang cabin hospitals | Isolation

[The Epoch Times, April 15, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Li Yun and Luo Ya interviewed and reported) Shanghai has been under lockdown for nearly a month, and the number of infections remains high. Thousands of square cabins live in the same room, and the messy scene is shocking. Some square cabins are even managed autonomously by patients, causing chaos.

As of April 15, Shanghai has reported more than 20,000 new infections for more than 10 consecutive days, and the epidemic is in a period of rapid growth.

Wu Qianyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said on the 13th that the largest makeshift hospitals in Shanghai have all opened the admission mode, and the average hospital stay has gradually shortened to about a week.

Some people who were quarantined in the Fangcang cabin hospital and who had just come out of the cabin told the Epoch Times reporter about their experiences.

On April 14, Mr. Wang, a patient in Tanlian Fangcang, Pujiang Town, Shanghai, introduced that there are more than 1,400 patients in his Fangcang, all of which are managed by patient volunteers. Every day, the toilet paper in the toilet is piled up like a mountain. Volunteers at 5 a.m. I have to work more until 1 am the next day. On the 13th, the volunteers went on strike and quit.

Mr. Wang said: “We are patient volunteers. The government does not have a lot of manpower and material resources. We can only rely on our own organization to do things that we can do. There is no rule that volunteers have to work.”

“As our patient volunteers, our wish is to strive for early recovery, early transfer, and leave the cabin.” Mr. Wang pointed out that the government issued a notice on the 12th, saying that positive cases will not be tested even if they test negative. It’s chilling for them to be released from quarantine.

A female patient in the same cabin as Mr. Wang posted on the 13th: “I feel like I’m going to die in the cabin. Yesterday we did a nucleic acid test here, and today we told us that more than 1,000 people were all positive… but many people The self-tests are all negative, and I even doubt whether our nucleic acid test has been sent for testing.”

According to a notice from Ruixin Neighborhood Committee, Jiaxing Road Sub-district, Hongkou District, Shanghai, confirmed cases, even if they later test negative, are still confirmed cases, and doctors will not retest or release them from isolation.

The female patient also revealed, “Today (13th) we had a riot. The entire cabin was unmanaged, and it was fine to distribute the supplies by ourselves. The toilet was cleaned by myself. I have never seen such a disgusting toilet in my life.”

On April 14, Mr. Li, a resident of Pudong New Area, also told The Epoch Times that the conditions for centralized isolation of the square cabins were quite bad.

He said that at 2 p.m. on March 27, he “went out to buy food, and someone there tested positive. They said I was a close contact, so I went in too. I came back in the afternoon of April 10, and I didn’t wash it once in the Nanxiang cabin. There is no place to take a bath at all. At night, use a washbasin towel dampened with water to wipe your body. There are a dozen areas there with a lot of people.”

Tencent.com released a report on “Isolation in Shanghai Fangcang” on the 13th, recording the experiences of many quarantined people.

Li Le, a 39-year-old sales manager, said that he received a notice on the morning of March 27 and asked him to go to the shelter for isolation.

He said that when he first arrived at the square cabin hospital in Hall H1 of the Shanghai World Expo, he was shocked: nearly 3,000 people lived in one room, the layout of the square cabin was open, and many women used sheets to surround the beds in order to protect their privacy. The cabin cannot take a bath. Going to the toilet is more painful, the floor is dirty and the smell is choking.

Another headache is poor rest. Many patients fell asleep before 10 o’clock, and the snoring was deafening. Some people wake up at four or five in the morning, do exercise or run in the cabin, and are woken up early, which is maddening.

The report also learned that Xu Mei, a 37-year-old Shanghai resident, and her 6-year-old daughter were quarantined at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center Fangcai Hospital in the early morning of the 11th. .”

She said: “The family area is mixed with men and women.” The toilets are mixed with men and women, and the dirt and blood are thrown next to the pit, piled up, and emits a stench. As more and more people come to the cabin for isolation, the toilet becomes more and more “spectacular”, and the picture can’t bear to look directly. Many people are afraid to go to the toilet, so they can only eat and drink less and reduce the frequency of relief.

The washbasin is also very dirty. On the morning of the 12th, Xu Mei and her daughter did not wash their faces or brush their teeth. She was even more worried that the sanitation here was poor and that there might be infectious diseases.

CCTV said on April 13 that as of the 9th, Shanghai had built more than 100 makeshift hospitals with more than 160,000 beds. Among them, the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) Fangcai Hospital has a total of 50,000 isolation beds.

However, many large square cabin hospitals are not only messy, but also have “waterfall” wonders in the cabins under heavy rain outside.

On April 13, Shanghai ushered in strong winds and heavy rains of magnitude 8. The video shows that in the four-leaf clover cabin, the sewers are reversed, and the dirt in the toilet is flowing in the cabin; the Nanhui cabin hospital also has rain leakage, and the rainwater flows into the cabin like a “waterfall”.

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At present, the whole of Shanghai seems to be full of cabins, and some patients have not been accepted in many places.

On the morning of April 11, Shanghai resident Fang Ru (pseudonym) and her nearly 70-year-old parents were pulled from their home and traveled three places before finding a bed to receive them. She said that the driver who pulled them revealed that someone had tossed around 4 cabins, and they were bumped on the road for more than 30 hours and no cabin was received.

A video that was widely circulated on the 10th showed that a large barra was carrying a car of infected people to the shelter, but no one received it, so they had to go around the car and river.

A woman in the video said: “There are forty or fifty of us, the old and the young, and now it’s the 4th room, we haven’t eaten or drank, is the next stop a crematorium? We don’t want this, we I don’t want to be buried alive.”

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At the same time, in order to complete the clearing task as soon as possible, the Shanghai authorities forced some people with negative test results to be sent to the makeshift hospital.

An audio recording on April 11 showed that a young couple in Shanghai had a negative nucleic acid test and had a negative report, but they were still forced into the cabin by the epidemic prevention police.

The female resident complained, “You have made all the reports of our children wrong. I have already called 12345 to file a complaint. They are verifying that the data in the public hospital is wrong. Now I am negative, so is my husband, and our family is all negative. , why did you pull me to the square cabin?”

The police said that they were instructed by the CDC, “You must follow me now, and if you do not cooperate, we will go through legal procedures.”

In the end, the two were taken away, and the police said they could go to the square cabin to file a complaint.

Recently, Shanghai woman Cao Feng also took a selfie video to accuse the authorities of deliberately tossing her and forcibly locking her into a square cabin, “I was originally a person who was not sick. code, and I have been negative for a month, and now I can only ask all netizens for help.”

Mr. Li, a resident of Pudong New Area, told The Epoch Times on the 14th that after the relocation of their home, the nearby No. 3 Central Primary School in Jing’an District was requisitioned as an isolation area, isolating many people. “All abandoned shopping malls, schools, and kindergartens in Shanghai have been converted into square cabins. Huating Hotel has also been requisitioned as an isolation point, and patients are officially admitted.”

He revealed, “In the villa area on Xinhua Road, all senior officials are isolated. After the relocation there, the original residents were driven away and not demolished. The villas were redecorated, and the officials moved in for isolation.”

The Shanghai authorities forced large-scale protests from community residents for confiscating apartment buildings and foreign language schools in Pudong New Area. On the 14th, the authorities sent a large number of armed police to violently suppress the protesters. Many people were beaten and arrested. information.

Responsible editor: Gao Jing#