What was ‘Cheoltonbang Station’ like in China… A quarantined woman in her 30s took her own life

As the number of new corona19 infections in China reached its highest level in seven months since April, lockdown orders in major cities eased. The side effects of strong quarantine measures are also increasing. In Guangzhou, where the number of infected people is the highest, an incident occurred where a woman who was quarantined in a temporary facility took her own life.

According to Chinese economic media Caixin, on the 18th, a 32-year-old woman was found dead in the bathroom of the Nansha Gymnasium in southern Guangzhou. On the 16th, the woman was asymptomatic and was transferred to a gym, a temporary quarantine facility, where she died two days later. Police said there was no possibility of homicide.

Xiaoya, who lived in an urban shanty town where migrant workers live in groups, tested positive in a nucleic acid test conducted on the 14th and was placed in quarantine. Nansha Gymnasium, where the girls were located, was urgently used due to the lack of quarantine facilities in Guangzhou. On the first day of the quarantine, the gymnasium was full of single beds and duvet pillows, but daily necessities were scarce, and from the next day, daily necessities were distributed to patients, Chaixin said. The day before his death, Xiaoya cried over the phone with his cousin over the phone and was afraid of the virus, and on the 17th, just before his death, he wandered around the stadium all night, according to CCTV limited by the police.

Guangzhou, with a population of 19 million, is currently the fastest-spreading COVID-19 in China. According to the health authorities, 98,000 new infections were counted in Guangzhou alone in the month from October 22nd to the 22nd of this month. Group infections also occurred in shanty towns where migrant workers lived, where women lived.

According to the Chinese quarantine authorities on the 24th, the number of new infections in mainland China the previous day was 29,754, 781 more than the previous record of 28,973 recorded on April 13, when Shanghai was blocked.

Barriers are also widening. Zhengzhou, Henan Province, will virtually block the city center for five days from the 25th. Residents of the city’s 8 districts are required to have a PCR test every day, and when going out, they must present a negative PCR test certificate and a letter of approval from the local authorities. In Shenyang, northeast China, by the 28th, all residents of 9 districts in the city were ordered to undergo a PCR test, and facilities were closed indoors. Haizhu District, which has the highest number of infections in Guangzhou, extended the lockdown order, including a curfew and suspension of public transportation, which started on the 5th of this month until the 27th.