{"id":1408989,"date":"2022-03-30T04:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408989"},"modified":"2022-03-30T04:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:15:36","slug":"china-truckers-use-fake-travel-records-clean-drivers-to-dodge-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-truckers-use-fake-travel-records-clean-drivers-to-dodge-covid-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"China truckers use fake travel records, \u2018clean\u2019 drivers to dodge COVID rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-truckers-use-fake-travel-records-clean-drivers-to-dodge-covid-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30T071756Z_2_LYNXNPEI2T0AP_RTROPTP_0_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA_1.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai\" \/><br \/>A pair of rubber gloves is hung to dry, as a security guard in personal protective equipment (PPE) walks along a street, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China March 29, 2022. REUTERS\/Aly Song<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (Reuters) \u2013     Chinese truck drivers hoping to outwit COVID-19 inspectors are faking travel histories to get through checkpoints or avoid quarantine, state media reported, as weary citizens struggle with restrictions more than two years after the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>While some truckers try to use hi-tech sleight of hand to dodge the restrictions, some desperate travellers are simply trying to hide in their cars to get where they want to go.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities across China have tightened COVID curbs this month as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads, triggering lockdowns in Shanghai and the whole province of Jilin. <\/p>\n<p>Many regional authorities have barred travellers, including long-distance truck drivers, from high-risk areas, while some have to spend time in quarantine, complicating lives and disrupting China\u2019s sprawling transport system.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there are people who try to game the system.<\/p>\n<p>In Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province and a major northeastern transport hub, nearly 100 truckers have been punished for trying to trick inspectors with mobile phones loaded with fake travel histories, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Often one phone, tucked away, contains a driver\u2019s real travel history, including locations with positive COVID cases marked with a star, while another phone, ready for presentation at checkpoints, shows a fake travel history with not a star in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Truckers for a logistics company aiming to get into another Liaoning city were caught trying to key phone numbers of people with \u201cclean\u201d travel histories, provided by their employer, into their phones to fool inspectors, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some travellers hoping to reach the capital, Beijing, have hired substitute drivers with untainted travel histories to drive their vehicles through checkpoints, while they sneak through the woods beside the road on foot to reclaim their cars on the other side, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute drivers can earn up to 2,000 yuan ($315) per trip, the Beijing city government said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Other travellers resort to just trying hiding in their cars to get through checkpoints, it said. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, a traveller returning to Jiaxing city, near Shanghai, got a substitute driver to help him get there. <\/p>\n<p>He was confirmed to be a coronavirus positive a few days later, police said. <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 6.3552 Chinese yuan renminbi)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Robert Birsel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of rubber gloves is hung to dry, as a security guard in personal protective equipment (PPE) walks along a street, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}