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A bus carrying people to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on board.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The coach overturned on a motorway in the south-western province of Guizhou. Another 20 people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The accident sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The policy involves mass testing and tracking. Those who test positive and their close contacts have to isolate at home or in a quarantine facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just a handful of cases can spark a city-wide lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no word on the cause of the crash. which occurred early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “All of us are on that bus”, read one popular comment posted on the social media app, WeChat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another comment asked, “When will all of this stop?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the rest of the world is trying to live with Covid, China is the only major economy still prioritising the fight against the virus above almost everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guizhou is currently experiencing a spike in infections. The province recorded 712 new cases on Saturday – about 70% of the total for China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incident comes in the run-up to the Communist Party’s five-yearly congress in October. Covid policy is expected to be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beijing’s more than 21 million residents are required to queue for PCR tests every three days to access public buildings and even corner shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: A bus carrying people to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on board. The coach overturned on a motorway in the south-western province of Guizhou. Another 20 people were injured. The accident sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy. The policy involves mass testing and tracking. Those who test positive and their close contacts have to isolate at home or in a quarantine facility. Just a handful of cases can spark a city-wide lockdown. There is no word on the cause of the crash. which occurred early on Sunday… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27313,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions\/27313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}