Helpless and frustrated

As lockdown continues in China’s biggest metropolis, the sense of helplessness is overwhelming.

 Photos and videos that showed young children separated from their parents at a Shanghai hospital stirred anger on social media over the weekend. One parent whose toddler was taken away after testing positive wrote on social media: “I’m so upset … This is inhumane.” 

 Several Shanghai-based EU diplomats sent a letter to the city’s government on 31 March, pressing it to provide assistance to their citizens when they needed medical help. They also urged Shanghai not to separate children from their parents “whatever the circumstances”.

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