Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo
Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo
People & Culture /  Social Welfare

Volunteer Covid-19 control worker in China stabbed to death by neighbour, days after a similar deadly confrontation

  • A Harbin man wanted to go out to dispose of trash. A volunteer gatekeeper said he couldn’t, and offered to get rid of it. Enraged, the resident stabbed him
  • It was the second such fatal confrontation in China recently. A driver in Hebei who objected to a Covid-19 test knocked down and killed a virus control officer

Topic |   Coronavirus pandemic
Mandy Zuo
Mandy Zuo in Shanghai

Updated: 8:54pm, 4 Feb, 2021

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Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo
Police working this week at a community in Harbin, China, where a volunteer gatekeeper implementing coronavirus restrictions was stabbed by a neighbour he barred from leaving to dispose of trash. Photo: Weibo
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