A 92-year-old woman was roused by some men, in the darkness of the night on Tuesday.

It was 2 a.m., and the door started to bang, nobody answered, so the visitors barged in, prying her privacy.

The visitors wanted to take the old woman, and her 74-year-old son to a quarantine camp.

They both had been tested positive for COVID, according to their reports.

She and her son had tested negative, owing to which she refused to go.

But, she was pulled out of the bed and dragged onto the floor.

Her son agreed to comply, and helped her dress.

The old woman’s granddaughter, Zhi Ye is a former journalist of Shanghai. She took to social media, explaining the account of events.

The online posts have sparked shock and outrage amongst the Chinese people.

The top comment under Zhii’s post said, “There’s no limit to the cold-blooded cruelty and violence.”

The local administration published a statement on Tuesday evening in response to public uproar, confirming the late-night transfer of the two elderly people to a quarantine facility.

According to the report, police and neighborhood committee members had a locksmith tear open the apartment’s outer door because they suspected the residents had been involved in an “accident.”

According to the statement, those elderly residents agreed to the transfer and went into the car with their own will.

Many senior Shanghai citizens, including Zhi’s grandmother, have been taken to government quarantine in recent days.

Officials ramp up attempts to remove all positive cases from neighborhoods in an effort to stop COVID from spreading outside of authorized facilities.

Some locals have gone to social media to ask for assistance after their elderly parents or grandparents were placed in isolation facilities, often without the medicine or equipment they require.

On Monday night, a group of senior adults, some in wheelchairs, were transferred to a quarantine center converted from a warehouse.

Some elderly people have attempted to resist.

An elderly woman appears to have escaped quarantine and is attempting to enter a neighborhood compound in many social media videos.

She may be seen roaming around and disputing with COVID employees dressed in biohazard suits who are attempting to persuade her to return to the government facility.

The mass transfer came as China’s most senior official in charge of the country’s COVID response, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, vowed to send everybody who tests positive for COVID.

Their close contacts would be sent to quarantine locations “without exception, deduction, or delay,” he said.

Sun predicted that community transmission in Shanghai will terminate shortly, with cases discovered solely in quarantine centers.