Shanghai separates coronavirus-infected children from their parents with under 7s taken to health centres and older kids held in quarantine facilities as part of brutal zero-Covid policy

Daily Mail UK

By DAVID AVERRE FOR MAILONLINE and WIRES

PUBLISHED: 06:12 EDT, 4 April 2022 | UPDATED: 10:08 EDT, 4 April 2022

Shanghai health officials have defended a policy of separating babies and young children from their parents if they test positive for Covid-19, amid growing frustration at the city’s brutal zero-Covid policies.

Around 25 million people in Shanghai, China‘s largest city and financial centre, remain locked down as authorities try to snuff out the country’s most severe virus outbreak since the end of the first pandemic wave in early 2020.

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