Twenty-seven people were killed in southwestern China on Sunday when a bus taking them to an anti-Covid quarantine site crashed, local authorities said.
The vehicle, in which 47 people were traveling, “overturned”, local police said, adding that the accident also left 20 injured.
The accident, the deadliest in China since the beginning of the yearIt took place in Qiannan prefecture, an isolated and mountainous region of Guizhou province, where several ethnic minorities live.
The provincial government confirmed, a few hours after the accident, that the bus was transporting people “to the place where they would be quarantined” due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but did not specify whether the passengers were sick, they were cases. contact. or simply a resident in a building where cases of infection have been recorded.
Guizhou province has recorded more than 900 new cases in the past two days.
On social networks, people have mourned the dead, in messages accompanied by lamentations against the “Covid zero” policy in force in China.
During Shanghai’s two-month city lockdown last spring, many residents of cities with COVID-19 cases were bussed in the middle of the night to rudimentary facilities in other provinces for quarantine.
Source: Observadora
