Thousands May Be Held In China s New COVID Quarantine Camp
01/20/21 AT 12:13 PM
China is preparing to undertake new measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus by building an enormous quarantine camp that will house more than 4,000 people.
The camp is located just outside of Shijiazhuang, China, in the provincial capital of Hebei, where a strict lockdown was issued on Jan. 8 after a surge in coronavirus cases emerged in the country after the Lunar New Year.
To control the virus surge in Shijiazhuang, officials have moved 12 villages of 20,000 people into centralized quarantine facilities to help control the spread of the virus and perform contact tracing and testing, Chinese state media outlet CGTN reported via CNN.