Travellers barred from sightseeing or returning home until confirmed clear of disease as authorities struggle to contain cases
Thousands of tourists have been barred this week either from sightseeing or returning home until they are confirmed to be clear of the disease, according to the Chinese publication Caixin. Quarantine rooms in areas across the provincial borders are also reportedly full.
As Tibet became a Covid hotspot, hundreds of vehicles were seen stuck on a highway this week after being denied entry to the neighbouring Yunnan province. On Tuesday, police in Tibet’s Markam county asked travellers to avoid leaving the region via a highway that goes to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. On the social media platform Weibo, a related hashtag about tourists being stranded has been viewed millions of times. One frustrated tourist on Thursday described the chaos and a lack of coordination in the area where she was staying.“We really do not know what to do,” she wrote. “We, as tourists, do not know why we have been stranded. We really feel the physical and mental exhaustion, helplessness, and there is no way to ask for help.
Another wrote on Wednesday: “From 8 August to the present, we have been calling the relevant personnel, who either did not answer the phone or told us that ‘there is no relevant policy for stranded passengers in medium- and high-risk areas’.” Part of the reason for such a situation is the region’s lack of medical capacity and experience to test such large numbers of people, Chinese media said. Some people reported long queues at test sites, and others grumbled about having to wait for days for a test result.
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