{"id":1422600,"date":"2022-04-06T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422600"},"modified":"2022-04-06T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:30:12","slug":"shanghai-announces-exceptions-to-family-separation-coronavirus-policy-after-global-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shanghai-announces-exceptions-to-family-separation-coronavirus-policy-after-global-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Announces &#039;Exceptions&#039; to Family Separation Coronavirus Policy After Global Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fshanghai-announces-exceptions-to-family-separation-coronavirus-policy-after-global-embarrassment%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=1422600&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Shanghai\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/shanghai-says-it-will-make-some-exceptions-in-covid-19-children-separation\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday limited \u201cexceptions\u201d to a policy separating children from their parents during Chinese coronavirus quarantines mandated by the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuardians of children with special needs who are infected with Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] can apply to escort them,\u201d Reuters paraphrased Shanghai health official Wu Qianyu as saying on April 6.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wu revealed the new policy adjustment at a regular press conference on Wednesday after a reporter asked her about Shanghai\u2019s controversial quarantine rules, which include strict separations of children from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Parents who choose to accompany special needs children into quarantine \u201cmust sign a letter stating that they are aware of the risks and will be required to comply with protection measures such [as] masks and not sharing household items with the children,\u201d the Shanghai health official noted on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>Wu on April 4 had <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2022\/04\/04\/shanghai-defends-policy-of-separating-covid-positive-children-from-families-as-frustration-at-virus-controls-grows\/\">defended<\/a> the Shanghai municipal health commission\u2019s policy of forcibly separating babies and children from their parents in the name of quarantine enforcement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf the child is younger than seven years old, those children will receive treatment in a public health centre,\u201d she told reporters at a press briefing on Monday, as quoted by\u00a0Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor older children or teenagers \u2026 we are mainly isolating them in centralised (quarantine) places,\u201d Wu said.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s current Chinese coronavirus quarantine strategy forces\u00a0anyone who tests positive for the virus to be isolated from non-infected people, even if the positive cases are asymptomatic or display only mild symptoms of the disease. The harsh delineation applies to \u201cchildren who test positive but whose family members do not,\u201d AFP observed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency reported on April 4 that Chinese citizens had openly denounced Shanghai\u2019s child separations across Chinese social media platforms, such as the Twitter-like Weibo microblog, in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents need to meet \u2018conditions\u2019 to accompany their children? That\u2019s absurd \u2026 it should be their most basic right,\u201d one anonymous Chinese netizen allegedly wrote on Weibo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnverified videos of babies and young children in state-run wards have been widely shared,\u201d AFP further revealed on April 4, referring to makeshift quarantine hospitals for Chinese coronavirus patients in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s child separation controversy this week has merely added to the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/06\/xi-jinpings-top-henchwoman-scolds-shanghai-to-adopt-a-stricter-attitude-on-coronavirus\/\">growing<\/a> woes. The metropolis of nearly 26 million inhabitants has been locked down to various degrees since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220328\/e48f13e6fcb643f2822b372e5ec079c6\/c.html\">March 28<\/a> as municipal health officials attempt to contain Shanghai\u2019s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus. Shanghai first launched anti-epidemiological measures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/china-closes-schools-dismisses-mayors-as-covid-19-numbers-rise\/\">March 11<\/a> when the city\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-shanghai-shuts-schools-due-fresh-covid-19-outbreak-2022-03-11\/\">shut down<\/a> all schools to curb a then-fresh outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus. The city, which is China\u2019s most densely populated, has failed to avoid surging cases of the disease in the month since then despite its desperate lockdown and quarantine measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a major test of China\u2019s zero-tolerance strategy to eliminate the novel coronavirus, the government widened the lockdown to eastern parts of the city and extended until further notice restrictions in western districts, which had been due to expire on Tuesday [April 5],\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/shanghai-lockdown-deepens-after-new-surge-asymptomatic-cases-2022-04-05\/\">reported<\/a> of Shanghai\u2019s newly expanded lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai\u2019s government announced on Wednesday limited \u201cexceptions\u201d to a policy separating children from their parents during Chinese coronavirus quarantines mandated by the state. \u201cGuardians of children with special needs who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-1422600","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\/1422600","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422600\/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=1422600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}