Authorities in China’s Hubei Province have sent residents who strolled on the streets during the coronavirus outbreak to ‘re-education camps’, according to reports.
A video shows the residents studying in a room guarded by anti-coronavirus officers at one of the centres last Saturday in Huangshi, Hubei Province of central China.
It is said the detainees would need to pass exams on coronavirus regulations and sign an agreement letter before being released. They were punished for ‘being outside for no particular reasons’.
A video shows people studying in a room guarded by anti-coronavirus officers in Hubei, China
The picture shows one detainee reading out coronavirus regulations in front of two officers
The so-called students would need to pass exams on coronavirus regulations and sign an agreement letter before they are released from the education centre in Hubei Province, China
The local government assembled five patrol teams last week to catch people who are wandering down the streets amid the outbreak.
The residents were sent to the Seventeenth High School of Huangshi, which is used as the re-education centre.
The camps have also been branded as ‘classes for disobedience’, reported Chudian News, an affiliation to Guangdong Broadcast and Television Station.
The local government assembled five patrol teams to catch people wandering on the streets
An officer is pictured giving a speech to the detainees in the education centre in Huangshi city
A Hubei resident, known by his surname Chen, was approached by the local media when he was allegedly leaving the camp.
Mr Chen told Pear Video he was sent to the centre after being caught walking to drop off something to his family.
The resident continued: ‘I think it’s great because some people didn’t know the information or understand the situation.
‘Overall it was great to have a learning opportunity like this,’ he said.
A Hubei resident, known by his surname Chen, was approached by the local media when he was allegedly leaving the camp. He said it was great to have a learning opportunity like this
Detained residents are pictured sitting in a room and studying the regulations on coronavirus
The picture shows the learning materials which includes relevant regulations about the virus
Communities around China have implemented quarantine measures to curb the epidemic of the killer virus, with no one allowed to enter or leave.
The novel coronavirus has claimed at least 2,858 lives and infected more than 83,700 people globally.
China now has a total of 78,824 cases, with the death toll reaching 2,788.
Communities around China have implemented quarantine measures to curb the epidemic of the killer virus. The picture shows guards standing at a checkpoint at a hutong in Beijing, China
A group of police are pictured taking a resident’s temperature at an entrance in Wuhan, Hubei
Workers wearing protective gears are pictured spraying disinfectant at a station in Seoul
Elsewhere, cases have surged again in South Korea today where 571 new infections brought the total from 1,766 to 2,337.
Meanwhile Nigeria has confirmed the first case outside sub-Saharan Africa, saying the patient was an Italian citizen who had recently returned from Milan.
The World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus epidemic was at a ‘decisive point’.
The coronavirus has appeared in nine new countries in recent days – Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Norway, Northern Macedonia, Pakistan and Romania – bringing the number of countries affected to more than 45.
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