Thousands of COVID-19-negative individuals Due to a number of infections, Beijing citizens were forcibly transferred to quarantine hotels overnight, as the Chinese capital prepares to take increasingly stringent control measures matching virus-hit Shanghai.

Beijing is dealing with its greatest outbreak since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Since late last month, the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 1,300 people, forcing local restaurants, schools, and tourist attractions to close indefinitely.

China’s COVID-19 eradication approach involves stringent border closures, lengthy quarantines, mass testing, and swift, targeted lockdowns.

According to images and a government notification extensively circulated on social media, more than 13,000 residents of the locked-down Nanxinyuan residential compound in southeast Beijing were evacuated to quarantine hotels overnight on Friday due to 26 new diseases identified in the previous few days.

“Experts have determined that all Nanxinyuan residents undergo centralised quarantine beginning midnight May 21 for seven days,” authorities from Chaoyang district said on Friday. “Please cooperate, otherwise you will bear the corresponding legal consequences.”

Hundreds of inhabitants with luggage waited in the dark to board buses positioned outside the compound, according to social media photographs.

“Some of us have been locked down for 28 days since April 23, and we all tested negative throughout,” one resident wrote on Sina Weibo. “A lot of my neighbors are elderly or have young children.”

“The transfer really makes us feel like we’re in a wartime scene,” resident and real estate blogger Liu Guangyu posted on Weibo early yesterday.

According to screenshots uploaded on Weibo, residents were urged to pack their clothes and vital things and that their homes will be cleansed thereafter.

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