Social media users blame the government as 27 people die in a bus crash while being taken to a quarantine facility.
abc.net.au/news/deadly-bus-crash-on-the-way-to-a-covid-quarantine-facility/101453008Chinese social media users have attacked the government's zero-COVID policy after 27 people died in a bus crash while travelling to a quarantine facility.Social media users say China's unflinching zero-COVID is to blame for the accidentThe bus, with 47 people on board, "flipped onto its side" in rural Guizhou province in south-west China on Sunday, local police said.
It is not clear whether the bus passengers were infected with COVID, close contacts, or living in the same building as virus patients. But one widely-liked Weibo post read: "This feeling can't simply be represented by lighting a candle and saying RIP."
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