China’s Care Homes Rush to Protect Elderly From Covid Surge
- Homes shut their doors to save under-vaccinated seniors
- China has been reluctant to force Covid shots on the elderly
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As Covid spreads rapidly across China, elderly care homes are barricading their doors in an attempt to save their vulnerable patients.
In cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing, local governments are enforcing on care homes the same closed-loop system that factories adopted during earlier outbreaks. No one comes, and no one goes. Staff are forced to live on site.