{"id":1363,"date":"2020-02-08T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2020-02-08T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T14:59:25","slug":"chinas-concentration-camp-capital-quarantines-at-least-99-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/2020\/02\/08\/chinas-concentration-camp-capital-quarantines-at-least-99-over-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Concentration Camp Capital Quarantines at Least 99 over Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/02\/07\/chinas-concentration-camp-capital-quarantines-least-99-coronavirus\/?fbclid=IwAR16T4B95ldRYl97CQzNagju9MoGQC-q-BF8q6SQjVr93zfXjfB3TTKY2fU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese officials in Xinjiang province, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, said on Thursday that at least 99 residents of Wuhan are under quarantine in the city of Atush. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wuhan is the center of the coronavirus outbreak, while Xinjiang features dozens of overcrowded, unsanitary concentration camps that could allow the virus to spread rapidly among the Uyghurs.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Radio Free Asia<\/a> (RFA), the 99 people under quarantine might just be the tip of the iceberg, because up to 13,000 people from the heavily-populated Wuhan area might have reached the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) before quarantine was imposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the story about the 99 people isolated at a hotel in Atush was not easy to get, because Chinese officials are treating information about the virus as a classified \u201cstate secret\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFA was able to speak with several officials in Atush, in the XUAR\u2019s Kizilsu Kirghiz (Kezileisu Keerkezi) Autonomous Prefecture, who said on condition of anonymity that at least 99 residents of Wuhan had been quarantined at the city\u2019s Yashin Hotel, with additional people from the virus\u2019s epicenter possibly held under similar conditions in another guesthouse.<\/p>

\u201cOur cadres said [the Wuhan residents] are being quarantined in hotels such as the Yashin and the Mirivan, where they have rooms for people to stay,\u201d an official with the municipal government said on Tuesday, without providing details of when the quarantine had gone into effect.<\/p>

\u201cThe Yashin is located in the center of the city and is more than 10 stories tall.\u201d<\/p>

RFA spoke with a security guard at the Yashin Hotel who confirmed the quarantine, but said he was unsure of how many people were being held there.<\/p>

\u201cWe have no empty rooms here\u2014it\u2019s full and we cannot be opened, because we\u2019re not operating,\u201d he said.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s filled with quarantined people. I don\u2019t know the numbers, but I can try to ask the doctors.\u201d<\/p>

An official at the Yashin called the hotel a \u201cquarantine site,\u201d adding that \u201call of them are from Hubei\u2019s Wuhan city.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Several other hotel employees told RFA the entire building has been closed on government orders, although some denied that any quarantine patients were currently housed there. The rest of the city of Atush has been blocked off with portable fencing and residents have been told to stay indoors for three weeks. The lockdown was imposed<\/a> so suddenly that people said they had no opportunity to stock up on food and supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey told us not to leave our houses, so we\u2019re not, and they\u2019ve blocked off the roads,\u201d one Atush resident said, adding that the emergency measures had been in effect for \u201cthree or four days\u201d already.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019re not going out. No one is going out. We\u2019re all staying at home for now.\u201d<\/p>

The resident described the fencing as being deployed to \u201cstop people from passing through \u2026 people from other places.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThey\u2019re gates that block streets off from one another \u2026 They\u2019ve blocked off entrances, exits, and the roads themselves,\u201d the resident added.<\/p>

The resident said no one was informed of the plan by authorities ahead of time, and when it went into effect, it was explained as a measure to \u201cstop a virus coming in from elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIf we can\u2019t go out, we\u2019re going to run out of food\u2014no one\u2019s selling anything out on the streets,\u201d they said.<\/p>

\u201cWe need to be able to go to the bazaar, but we need [official] papers for that, and what can we do since they won\u2019t give us those papers?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Policy<\/em> noted<\/a> on Wednesday that China\u2019s quarantines and lockdowns have been quite dramatic \u2013 Wuhan itself is a once-teeming metropolis that looks<\/a> like a ghost town \u2013 but they do not appear to be slowing the spread of the coronavirus as much as hoped, perhaps because so much movement occurred in the early days of the outbreak, when the Chinese government was trying to pretend it was not happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lockdowns are helping the Chinese Communist Party control the spread of information. Foreign Policy <\/em>mused darkly that Beijing\u2019s new policy of clustering infected people into tight quarantine zones, like the hotel in Atush, is helpful for \u201cunderstating\u201d the number of people who have died from the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/02\/07\/chinas-concentration-camp-capital-quarantines-least-99-coronavirus\/?fbclid=IwAR16T4B95ldRYl97CQzNagju9MoGQC-q-BF8q6SQjVr93zfXjfB3TTKY2fU Chinese officials in Xinjiang province, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, said on Thursday that at least 99 residents of Wuhan are under quarantine … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}