China imposes COVID-like quarantine over new breakout of viral disease

Fears of another pandemic are rising after China issued a quarantine order over thousands of cases of a viral disease carried by mosquitoes.

Chinese officials reported 7,000 infections of the chikungunya disease in Foshan, a city located in the south. The disease is not usually fatal but can be very painful.

‘You raise the specter of the zero COVID strategy, with its zero-tolerance approach, the mass mobilization, the surveillance.’

Health officials have ordered a “patriotic public health campaign” to aid their efforts to find and destroy mosquito breeding sites in the city. They are employing drones, mosquito-eating fish in ponds, and “elephant mosquitoes” that feed on the chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes.

Residents have been instructed to ensure there is no water stagnating anywhere in the city. Some have

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