'No choice': Shanghai residents sent out of city during COVID crackdown
SHANGHAI, China — In the middle of the night, Shanghai resident Lucy said she and her neighbors were forced into buses and taken hundreds of kilometers away from the locked-down Chinese metropolis to a makeshift quarantine center. Most of Shanghai's 25 million residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as the city battles a major COVID outbreak. Hundreds of thousands of virus-positive people have been taken to makeshift facilities as China does not allow them to quarantine at home. But some residents who tested negative told AFP that they were also forced out of their homes and taken to camps outside the city, some hundreds of kilometers away."The police told us that there were too many positive cases in our compound and if we carried on living here, we'd all become infected," Lucy told AFP, using only her first name for privacy reasons. "We had no choice." She said the virus-negative group wer...