Following a public uproar, Shanghai is allowing at least some parents to stay with children infected with COVID-19, making an exception to a policy of isolating anyone who tests positive.
The announcement came as China's largest city remained in lockdown and conducted more mass testing Wednesday following another jump in new cases.
Reports that parents were being separated from their infected children had sparked a wave of protest online last weekend, fuelled by photos showing several children in each cot with no parents in sight. An official from the EU Chamber of Commerce in China joined a growing chorus of criticism of the Shanghai lockdown, which has disrupted daily life and commerce in a major financial and business centre.
"Another really big fear is ending up in one of those mass central quarantine sites," Schoen-Behanzin said in an online event for member companies and journalists.
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