China:Millions quarantined in metal boxes under 'Zero Covid' policy

In China,suspected COVID-19 patients are being forced to stay in crammed metal boxes furnished with a wooden bed and a toilet - for as long as two weeks. Covid positive people being brought in buses to quarantine in these boxes. People, including pregnant women, children and elderly, are being forced to stay in these baxes. A video tweeted by user @songpinganq showed the horrifying reality of Chinese Covid curbs.

These people may can escape from their gated communities-little prisons, but can they escape the big prison-china?
Xi jinping had ordered all ordinary Chinese people hand over their passports to authority months ago.
You have to illegally cross border now!https://t.co/sEYyRwsChJ pic.twitter.com/3X0lGJdkvt

— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) December 21, 2021

The scenes, which seemed straight out of a dystopian movie, are among the several strict preventive measures the country is taking to check the spread of COVID-19. In several areas, residents were told just after midnight that they need to leave their homes and go to the quarantine centres, China has imposed several draconian rules on its citizens under its "zero Covid" policy, placing millions under quarantine even as Beijing prepares to host next month's WintOlympics. China, where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, has a formula it calls "dynamic zero" for curbing outbreaks: strict lockdowns and immediate mass testing.